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Hebetude

//ˈhɛb.ə.tuːd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Mental lethargy or dullness. uncommon, uncountable

    "1600, translation attributed to Thomas Nashe, The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles by Tomaso Garzoni, London: Edward Blount, Discourse 6, pp. 32-33, The intemperature of the braine is the cause of al this (as phisitions affirme) which maketh all the officiall, and functiue parts full of heauines and indisposition, and so through this hebetude (to vse their terme) vnapt to keepe in minde any thing."

  2. 2
    mental lethargy or dullness wordnet

Etymology

From Late Latin hebetūdō.

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