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Today's Word "hebetude"

Mental dullness on

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hebetude \HEB-uh-tood-; -tyood\ (noun) - Mental dullness or sluggishness.

"From that solitude, full of despair and terror, he was torn out brutally, with kicks and blows, passive, sunk in hebetude." -- Joseph Conrad, 'Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard'

 

Hebetude derives ultimately from Latin hebes, "blunt, dull, mentally dull, sluggish, stupid." The adjective form is hebetudinous.


 

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