Citations:stupidité

English citations of stupidité

Noun: un‐common form of stupidity

					1858 1899
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• 1858 C.E., Daniel Hack Tuke and John Charles Bucknill, A Manual of Psychological Medicine, Blanchard and Lea; Chapter VI, § IV, page #156:

  If this condition be still further aggravated—if there be a complete torpor of the mental functions—we then have the stupidité of M. Baillarger, which has already been referred to in a previous section.

• 1899 C.E., William Bevan Lewis, A Text‐Book of Mental Diseases, Charles Griffin and Company; second edition, page #183:

  In such a case as the foregoing, we see the distinction between simple melancholic depression and the more acute depression often associated with stuporose states : whereas the gentle depression of the former induces apathy, disinclination for exertion, bodily or mental, and brooding silence, the latter may result in one of two conditions—either in the demonstrative expression of these painful states (melancholia agitans) ; or in a spell-bound stupor in which the organism seems, so to speak, petrified by its intensely painful mental state—the melancholy with stupor or the stupidité of French alienists.