stupor

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

STUPOR, noun [Latin] 1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense; numbness; as the stupor of a limb. 2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to ones interests.
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