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hebetude

[ heb-i-tood, -tyood ]

noun

  1. the state of being dull; lethargy.


hebetude

/ ˈhɛbɪˌtjuːd /

noun

  1. rare.
    mental dullness or lethargy
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Derived Forms

  • ˌhebeˈtudinous, adjective
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Other Words From

  • hebe·tudi·nous adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hebetude1

First recorded in 1615–25; from Late Latin hebetūdō “dullness, bluntness,” equivalent to Latin hebet- (stem of hebes ) “dull” + -ūdō; -tude
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hebetude1

C17: from Late Latin hebetūdō, from Latin hebes blunt
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Example Sentences

These are the predominant symptoms: hebetude or low, muttering delirium, picking at the bed-clothes, involuntary evacuations, stertor, and the like.

Such children, in their mental hebetude and physical degeneracy, suggest a degree of cretinism.

Benumbed, exhausted, sunk in hebetude, she waited until she could wait no more, until intolerable suspense drove her blindly.

We are on the eve of a Jubilee Year, when the halcyon shall plume his wing, and we shall hear much oratorical trash and hebetude about the peacefulness of this happy reign.

This hebetude of all faculty was the merciful, protecting method that Nature took with her, dimming the lamp of consciousness until the wounded creature could gain sufficient resiliency to bear a full realization of life.

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