Semicatatonic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    In a state partially resembling catatonia. not-comparable

    "When these people speak — and they do at length, often in lyrical monologues of unexpected beauty — it is with the semicatatonic air of someone waking from a long sleep, grasping for fragments of vanished dreams."

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"When these people speak — and they do at length, often in lyrical monologues of unexpected beauty — it is with the semicatatonic air of someone waking from a long sleep, grasping for fragments of vanished dreams."

Etymology

From semi- + catatonic.

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