narcosis
Americannoun
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a state of stupor or drowsiness.
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a state of stupor or greatly reduced activity produced by a drug.
noun
Etymology
Origin of narcosis
Example Sentences
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“The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.… Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
Using a helium-oxygen mixture avoids the disoriented mental state known as nitrogen narcosis, the so-called rapture of the deep.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Methylene chloride can kill either through direct narcosis or through metabolization into carbon monoxide, which binds to hemoglobin in the blood and inhibits oxygen from moving around the body.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2018
Well, The Shape Of Water is a film which has beguiled everyone who has seen it: and what it certainly has to offer is pure artistry and pure narcosis.
From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2018
After the narcosis of that repast the spirit falls into a softer mood, eager only to be amused.
From The Haunted Bookshop by Morley, Christopher
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