cataleptic
Americanadjective
noun
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They didn’t have official Black Friday sales during the cataleptic 1970s, because the economy was in woeful shape and the public had basically given up on the idea of bargains.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Best shot: Kiki going into a cataleptic trance to keep the manager from throwing her out of his apartment.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man who defined the ideals of pictorial sentiment for an exceedingly pious age; whose angels and Blessed Damozels, Arthurian knights and shrinking, somewhat cataleptic virgins were the very essence of escapist painting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its occupant has died before your eyes, but you can't be too sure, for she was subject to cataleptic trances.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through the rest of the night and most of the following day, Beck lay out on the ice, exposed to the merciless wind, cataleptic and barely alive.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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