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stupor

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idleness
noun. laziness, inaction
  • dawdling
  • dilly-dallying
  • dormancy
  • droning
  • goof-off time
  • hibernation
  • inactivity
  • indolence
  • inertia
  • joblessness
  • laze
  • lazing
  • leisure
  • lethargy
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • otiosity
  • own sweet time
  • pottering
  • shiftlessness
  • sloth
  • slothfulness
  • slouch
  • slowness
  • sluggishness
  • stupor
  • time on one's hands
  • time to burn
  • time to kill
  • time-wasting
  • torpidity
  • torpor
  • trifling
  • truancy
  • unemployment
  • vegetating

inertia
noun. disinclination to move; lifelessness
  • apathy
  • deadness
  • drowsiness
  • dullness
  • idleness
  • immobility
  • immobilization
  • inactivity
  • indolence
  • languor
  • lassitude
  • laziness
  • lethargy
  • listlessness
  • oscitancy
  • paralysis
  • passivity
  • sloth
  • sluggishness
  • stillness
  • stupor
  • torpidity
  • torpor
  • unresponsiveness

lethargy
noun. laziness, sluggishness
  • apathy
  • coma
  • disinterest
  • disregard
  • drowsiness
  • dullness
  • hebetude
  • heedlessness
  • idleness
  • impassivity
  • inaction
  • inactivity
  • inanition
  • indifference
  • indolence
  • inertia
  • inertness
  • insouciance
  • languor
  • lassitude
  • listlessness
  • passiveness
  • phlegm
  • sleep
  • sleepiness
  • sloth
  • slowness
  • slumber
  • stupor
  • supineness
  • torpidity
  • torpidness
  • torpor
  • unconcern
  • unmindfulness

shock
noun. complete surprise; blow
  • awe
  • bombshell
  • breakdown
  • bump
  • clash
  • collapse
  • collision
  • concussion
  • confusion
  • consternation
  • crash
  • distress
  • disturbance
  • double whammy
  • earthquake
  • encounter
  • excitement
  • eye-opener
  • hysteria
  • impact
  • injury
  • jarring
  • jolt
  • percussion
  • prostration
  • ram
  • scare
  • start
  • stroke
  • stupefaction
  • stupor
  • trauma
  • traumatism
  • turn
  • upset
  • whammy
  • wreck

slumber
noun. sleep
  • coma
  • dormancy
  • doze
  • drowse
  • forty winks
  • inactivity
  • languor
  • lethargy
  • nap
  • repose
  • rest
  • sack time
  • shut-eye
  • snooze
  • stupor
  • torpor

torpor
noun. lethargy
  • apathy
  • disinterest
  • dormancy
  • drowsiness
  • dullness
  • idleness
  • impassivity
  • inaction
  • inactivity
  • languor
  • laziness
  • lifelessness
  • listlessness
  • passiveness
  • sleepiness
  • sloth
  • slowness
  • sluggishness
  • slumber
  • stupor
  • torpidity
  • torpidness

trance
noun. hypnotic state
  • abstraction
  • catalepsy
  • catatonia
  • coma
  • daze
  • dream
  • ecstasy
  • glaze
  • insensibility
  • muse
  • petrifaction
  • rapture
  • reverie
  • spell
  • study
  • stupor
  • transfixion
  • transfixture
  • unconsciousness

insensibility
noun. dullness
  • analgesia
  • anesthesia
  • apathy
  • carus
  • coma
  • inactivity
  • indifference
  • insusceptibility
  • lethargy
  • narcoma
  • narcosis
  • numbness
  • stupefaction
  • stupor
  • torpor
  • trance
  • unconsciousness

amnesia
noun. memory loss
  • blackout
  • fugue
  • stupor
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Word Origin & History

stupor late 14c., from L. stupor "insensibility, numbness, dullness," from stupere "be stunned" (see stupid).

Example Sentences for stupor

The boy, rousing for an instant, would lapse again into stupor.

Lucie had, by that time, fallen into a stupor on the floor at his feet, clinging to his hand.

She, motionless in the stupor of her anxiety, had not taken her eyes from his face.

Once invaded by a question, Charley must answer it, or fail and fall into a stupor.

He bent over her with stupor rather than grief stamped on his features.

The stupor and the restlessness had alike vanished; he was in a deep sleep.

And he reverts into a stupor, leaving the world to the poet and the pump.

Moineaud listened to her in a state of stupor, as if he were unable to understand.

In that stupor, I heard someone laughing, without explaining to myself who it was.

I know not how long we remained in a stupor after that tragedy.

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