Semicatatonic
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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