Stupor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stupor \Stu"por\, n. [L., from stupere to be struck senseless.]
     1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression
        of sense or feeling; lethargy.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness


        or inattention to one's interests.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stupor
       n 1: the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when
            something bad happens accidentally; "his mother's
            deathleft him in a daze"; "he was numb with shock" [syn:
             {daze}, {shock}]
       2: marginal consciousness; "his grogginess was caused as much
          by exhaustion and by the blows"; "someone stole his wallet
          while he was in a drunken stupor" [syn: {grogginess}, {stupefaction},
           {semiconsciousness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  155 Moby Thesaurus words for "stupor":
     KO, abstraction, abulia, acedia, alienation, aloofness, amnesia,
     anesthesia, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy,
     ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blackout, blah, blahs, boredom,
     catalepsy, cataplexy, catatonia, catatonic stupor, catatony, coma,
     comatoseness, compulsion, daydreaming, daze, dejection, depression,
     detachment, disinterest, dispassion, dream state, drowsiness,
     dullness, elation, emotionalism, encephalitis lethargica,
     enervation, ennui, euphoria, faint, fatigue, folie du doute, fugue,
     fugue state, grayout, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, high,
     hopelessness, hypnotic trance, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics,
     inanimation, inappetence, indifference, inertia, inertness,
     insensibility, insouciance, jadedness, kayo, knockout,
     lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment,
     languor, languorousness, lassitude, laziness, lenitude, lentor,
     lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, lipothymia, lipothymy,
     listlessness, mania, melancholia, mental distress, narcohypnosis,
     narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization,
     nirvana, nirvana principle, nod, nonchalance, nothingness,
     numbness, oblivion, obliviousness, obsession, oscitancy,
     passiveness, passivity, pathological indecisiveness, phlegm,
     phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, preoccupation,
     psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, resignation, resignedness,
     reverie, satedness, sedation, semiconsciousness, senselessness,
     shock, sleep, sleepiness, sleeping sickness, sleepwalking, sloth,
     slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, slumber, somnambulism,
     somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness,
     stupefaction, supineness, swoon, syncope, thanatosis, tic,
     torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, trance, twitching,
     unconcern, unconsciousness, unresponsiveness, weariness,
     withdrawal, withdrawnness, world-weariness