Hebetude

//ˈhɛb.ə.tuːd//

Synonyms for "hebetude" (114 found)

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19 translations across 8 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • летаргия noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • слабоумие noun (mental lethargy or dullness)

Czech

4 entries
  • letargie noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • netečnost noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • otupení noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • tupost noun (mental lethargy or dullness)

Finnish

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  • tylsämielisyys noun (mental lethargy or dullness)

French

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  • abrutissement noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • abêtissement noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • hébétude noun (mental lethargy or dullness)

Italian

2 entries
  • abbrutimento noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • ebetudine noun (mental lethargy or dullness)

Polish

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  • ogłupienie noun (mental lethargy or dullness)

Russian

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  • ту́пость noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • тупоумие noun (mental lethargy or dullness)

Spanish

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  • alelamiento noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • embotamiento noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • embrutecimento noun (mental lethargy or dullness)
  • entorpecimiento noun (mental lethargy or dullness)

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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.

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[T]here are ſeveral Species of Writing, in which a proper Degree of Hebetude is abſolutely neceſſary, as well as in other profeſſions; such as Lexicography, Index-making, and the like; [...]

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It would be a supposition attended with very little probability, to believe that a complete and full formed spirit existed in every infant; but that it was clogged and impeded in its operations, during the first twenty years of life, by the weakness, or hebetude, of the organs in which it was enclosed.

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Hirsch, with his arms tied behind his back, had been bundled violently into one of the smaller rooms. For many hours he remained apparently forgotten, stretched lifelessly on the floor. From that solitude, full of despair and terror, he was torn out brutally, with kicks and blows, passive, sunk in hebetude.

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