hebetude
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From Late Latin hebetūdō.
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hebetude (uncountable)
- Mental lethargy or dullness.
- 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
- Incuriousness was the most potent ally of our imposed order; for Eastern government rested not so much on consent or force, as on the common supinity, hebetude, lack-a-daisiness, which gave a minority undue effect.
- 1985?, Oliver Sacks, “The Lost Mariner”, chapter 2 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Reset 2007 edition), page 33, footnote 2:
- This dwelling on the past and relative hebetude towards the present – this emotional dulling of current feeling and memory – is nothing like Jimmie’s organic amnesia.
- 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
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mental lethargy or dullness
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