stuporn.

Brit.

/ˈstjuːpə/,

/ˈstʃuːpə/, U.S.

/ˈst(j)upər/

Forms: Middle English–1500s stupore, Middle English–1600s stupour, Middle English– stupor, 1500s stupoure.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin stupor.

Etymology: < classical Latin stupor state of being insensible, numbness, stupefaction, astonishment, wonder, amazement, dullness, stupidity < stupēre to be or become dazed, stunned, or speechless (see stupid adj.) + -or -or suffix.Compare Middle French, French stupeur , Old Occitan stupor , Italian stupore (all 14th cent.), Catalan estupor , Spanish estupor , Portuguese estupor (all 15th cent.). Specific senses. In the specific use with reference to mental illness (see sense 1b) after French stupeur (1801 in this sense, in the passage translated in quot. 1806). In sense 2b after post-classical Latin stupor mundi stupor mundi n. Pronunciation. N.E.D. (1919) gives the pronunciation of the English word as (stiū·pəɹ) /ˈstjuːpə(r)/, but that of the scientific Latin term as (stiū·pǫɹ) /ˈstjuːpɔː(r)/.

a. Originally: †loss of physical sensation in a part of the body, resulting from injury, cold, medication, etc. (= anaesthesia n. 1) (obsolete). In later use: a state of impaired consciousness, spec. when characterized by diminished responsiveness to stimuli; (in non-medical contexts) esp. such a state induced by alcohol or drugs.Quot. a1398 may alternatively be taken to show use of the Latin word in an English context. stupor of the teeth: (apparently) the tingling pain occurring when damaged teeth are exposed to cold or acidic substances (perhaps so called from a supposed resemblance to the pain occurring when sensation returns to a numbed area of skin) [after post-classical Latin stupor dentium (1363 in Chauliac; 16th cent. in translations of Galen, or earlier), translating ancient Greek αἱμωδία (Hippocrates, Galen); also in the Vulgate (Amos 4:6), translating Hellenistic Greek γομφιασμός] .

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun]

stupora1398

congelation1577

obstupescence1598

carus1605

coma1646

comatosity1805

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [noun] > state of physical stupefaction

dazedness1340

excessa1387

stupora1398

stupefaction?a1425

dazingc1522

damp1542

daziness1554

dazzling1581

stupidity1603

stupidity?1615

stupidness1619

stupification1650

dream1717

dazzlement1841

daze1855

dazement1855

lull1856

mazement1901

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. vii. 351 Stupor is comelinge and stonynge of lymes and crokynge of þe vttir parties of þe body for coolde, so þat hit semeþ þat þe lymes schrinkeþ and slepiþ.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 140 (MED) Of stupore & congelacioun of teþe [L. de stupore et congelacione dencium], hote wyne or ewe ardent be holden in þe mouþ.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια xi. xxi. 873 Now stupor is a diminution of sense, the palsie a priuation of sense and motion, and a Convulsion is a motion involuntary or against our willes.

1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxv. 295 For what is Stupor but that which the Greekes call ἀναισθησία, that is, a cessation from the Sense of other things?

1746 R. James in Moffett & Bennet's Health's Improvem. (new ed.) Introd. 12 Acid Eructations, which have in some Cases been so sharp as to induce a Stupor of the Teeth.

1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 413 There appear'd some signs of stupor from the medicine.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 455 The pricking pain like that of pins, or of a limb awaking from stupor.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. v. 71 An expergefaciant..was employed to rouse a patient from the lethargic stupor brought on by a large dose of opium.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxv. 289 James sank into a stupor which indicated the near approach of death.

1899 A. Conan Doyle Duet viii. 111 She had drunk herself into the stupor in which she had been found.

1958 First Aid (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) xi. 102 There are two degrees of unconsciousness apart from sleep:—Partial (Stupor); Complete (Coma).

2015 Sun (National ed.) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 16 He stabbed his father twice on December 12 last year as the tycoon lay in a drunken stupor.

b. A form or manifestation of mental illness characterized by extreme apathy or inertia, typically with refusal to speak, eat, move, or interact with other people. Cf. catalepsy n. 1, catatonia n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > impairment of mental powers

dementia1598

stupor1806

demency1858

Pick's disease1927

1806 D. Davis tr. P. Pinel Treat. Insanity 167 The news of the death of one of the brothers, and the derangement of the other, threw this third victim into a state of such consternation and stupor [Fr. stupeur] as might have defied the powers of ancient or modern poetry to describe it.

1853 tr. A. Brierre de Boismont Hallucinations vi. 135 Georget has given the name of stupor [Fr. stupidité] to this particular kind of madness, which Esquirol looked on as a variety of dementia (acute dementia).

1874 H. H. Newington in Jrnl. Mental Sci. 20 374 I therefore would suggest the use of the adjective ‘anergic’.., the title of course referring not to the patient in toto, but to his brain cells. We thus get two decided terms wherewith to grasp and separate the two forms, ‘anergic stupor’ on the one hand, ‘delusional stupor’ on the other.

1918 G. W. Jacoby Unsound Mind & Law 246 Sometimes the manic stupor arises in the midst of a depressive stupor.

2013 Jrnl. Emergency Nursing 39 138/2 Catatonic stupor is one of the most dramatic psychiatric presentations, but is becoming increasingly rare in the western world.

a. Wonder, admiration; amazement, astonishment. Now rare.Quot. a1398 may alternatively be taken to show use of the Latin word in an English context.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [noun]

wonderc700

wonderingOE

ferlya1300

marvelc1330

stupora1398

admirationc1425

admirativec1487

amazement1576

mazement1580

stupefaction1592

amazedness1593

astonishment1594

stonishment1594

amaze1598

surprisal1652

staggerment1933

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > awe, reverential wonder > [noun]

stupora1398

fearc1400

awfulness1574

horror1579

religiona1642

awe1743

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > instance or example of

miraclea1393

stupora1398

prodigy1595

wonderment1606

wonder1721

marvela1785

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > admiration > [noun] > overwhelming > condition of

stupora1398

stare?a1500

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. vii. 351 Stupor is wondringe of a newe þinge & cetera.

c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3662 (MED) Ilk one of thaym..merveillid in hoege stupour in thire thinges alle þerforne.

1542 T. Becon New Pollecye of Warre Prol. sig. B.ii^v Lorde God, wyth how great admiracion and stupore was I affected & striken?

1633 H. Hawkins Partheneia Sacra 237 That Cæsar of Cæsars in captiuing..Caligula the Roman Monark, to the stupour and amazement of the world.

1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico II. viii. 14 The exhibition [was] attended to with all the stupor and amazement imaginable by the two governors.

1856 H. N. Humphreys Stories by Archæologist & his Friends II. iv. 179 He saw, to his surprise and utter stupor, his cousin Gertrude bending over him and smiling.

1905 Daily Mail 25 Jan. 3/4 I have no doubt this letter will cause great stupor in England, where it will find all the attention that it deserves.

1954 This Week Mag. 9 May 27/1 From time to time the writers want Lucy's mouth to fall open in utter stupor—like Howe's Cavern.

b. With of. A person pre-eminent in a specified class, sphere, or place; one who is an object of wonder or admiration. Now rare and only in (the) stupor of the world, ‘wonder of the world’, used as an epithet for the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250).This sense appears to have fallen out of use after the 17th cent.; the phrase (the) stupor of the world was apparently revived in the 20th cent. as a calque on the Latin phrase stupor mundi (see stupor mundi n.).

ΚΠ

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered viii. 26 You Cynosura and Lucifer of nations, the stupor and admiration of the world, the admirable scholler of the Brittish soyle.

1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lxxiii. 727 What shall we say of Him,..the great Stupor and Wonder of Diuines?

1695 M. Micklethwait tr. Hist. Olivaires of Castile xxiv. 93 The Judges affirmed that he was the Stupor of Chivalry, and the whole Court went off amazed at his Valour.

1930 New Statesman 26 Apr. 83/2 They helped..Frederick the Second, the Stupor of the world, who so nearly overset the mediæval scheme.

a1983 R. Payne Dream & Tomb: Hist. of Crusades (2000) 305 Matthew Paris called him Stupor Mundi et immutator mirabilis—Stupor of the world and marvelous changer of things.

a. A state of mental or spiritual dullness or numbness; intellectual or emotional apathy or torpor. Later esp.: a dazed or distracted state associated with the experience of a powerful emotion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion

dryheada1300

lethargyc1380

drynessc1450

dumping1542

unsensibility1551

insensibleness?1555

unsensibleness?1555

stupidity1568

stolidity1570

stupor1570

dumpishness1574

senselessness1577

innaturality1579

astoniedness1580

impassibility1603

stupefaction1603

torpor1607

deadness1611

unsufferance1611

hebetude1621

nonsense1621

drought1622

hebetation1623

obstupefaction1625

unanswerableness1626

tastelessnessa1631

insensateness1646

impassiveness1648

obtuseness1648

barrenness1655

torpulency1657

sterility1661

spiritlessness1669

unspiritedness1669

unaffectedness1678

insensibility1691

stolidness1727

apathy1742

impenetrableness1747

unfeelingness1766

impassivity1794

unfeeling1805

soullessness1811

incommobility1822

obtusity1823

unimpressibleness1830

hardhead1836

stockishness1837

insensitiveness1838

impenetrability1847

unreceptivity1849

unsusceptibility1850

woodenness1854

unimpressionability1862

irresponsiveness1864

unresponsiveness1869

impassibleness1874

irreceptivity1881

unimpressibility1889

apatheia1893

inemotivity1894

affectlessness1921

insensitivity1957

the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > stupefaction

ecstasyc1384

mazednessc1395

astounedness1549

stupor1570

stupefaction1592

obstupescence1598

obstupefaction1625

1570 T. Tymme tr. A. Marlorat Catholike & Eccles. Expos. Mathewe x. 219 A brutishe and beastly stupor, and dulnesse, whiche by the terrour of death, maketh them to cast from them the confession of the same faythe.

a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) 267 That stupor and benummedness of spirit, whereby men are made unapprehensive of their afflictions.

1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett III. cxxv. 91 Emma was folding his clay-cold body in her arms. She seemed to be lost in a stupor of irremediable grief.

1844 Classical Museum 1 395 Ignorance, stupor, apathy, and unreasonable credulity or scepticism, are characteristics of barbarity.

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lx. 457 A downcast stupor and sense of abasement possessed every man.

1905 W. J. Locke Morals Marcus Ordeyne xxi. 259 For aught I could see he dwelt in a mild stupor of happiness, absorbed in the intoxication of a tremulous pursuit.

2013 E. Fremantle Queen's Gambit iii. 79 Dot goes about in a bewildered stupor, hardly knowing where to put herself.

b. A state or period of relative inactivity, lack of incident, etc., in a particular place or sphere.

ΚΠ

1855 B. Disraeli in W. F. Monypenny & G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli (1916) IV. i. 23 There has been a great stupor over affairs since we parted, or since I last wrote, but there are now indications of events.

1879 J. Morley Burke iv. 62 The war with the American colonies was preceded by an interval of stupor.

1931 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 26 Jan. 8/1 The rail shares once more pulled the stock market out of its stupor today and the list closed with a strong tone.

1964 Indian Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 25 ii. 67 He views Asia emerging from a long period of stupor and quiescence.

2010 Gaz. (Colorado Springs) 10 Oct. a4/3 Cutting the state's budget means more money in private hands, which could pull the state from its economic stupor.

†4. Ideas or thinking characteristic of a person who is stupid; stupidity, idiocy. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only in the writings of Thomas Carlyle.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun]

hardnessOE

stuntnessc1000

sotshipc1050

witlessnessa1100

sotheada1200

dullness1398

bluntness1483

slowness1495

grossnessa1530

stupidity?1541

assishness?1548

dastardness1552

lourderie1555

dastardliness1556

blockishness1561

doltishness1569

sottage1569

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doltry1581

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doltage1593

dorbellism1593

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dullery1653

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crassness1664

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blockheadism1753

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nincompoophood1791

duncishness1805

numbskullism1806

foziness1821

noodledum1821

obtusity1823

soft-headedness1823

noodledom1827

duncehood1829

dunderheadedness1830

sumphishness1830

asininity1831

dunderheadism1836

stockishness1837

dullardness1840

fat-headedness1840

stupor1845

duncedom1847

misintelligence1848

nincompoopery1850

wooden-headedness1850

dumminess1852

jolterheadedness1852

ninnyship1852

donkeyism1855

dumbness1860

beef-wittedness1863

crassitude1865

donkeyhood1869

slow-wittedness1869

chuckle-headedness1880

leatherheadedness1880

pinheadedness1884

numbskulledness1885

donkeydom1889

thickheadedness1889

density1894

moronism1922

nitwittedness1931

nitwittery1931

noodleness1931

dopiness1942

squirrel-headedness1955

nincompoopism1957

dim-wittedness1960

clottishness1961

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 117 One stupid Annotator on a certain Copy of this Letter says, ‘His Lordship had an intrigue with Mrs. Claypole’;—which is evidently downright stupor and falsehood.

Compounds

Instrumental and objective, with participles, as stupor-inducing, stupor-producing, stupor-stricken, etc., adjectives.

ΚΠ

1823 Republican 18 July 46 The soporific and stupor producing qualities of beer, spirits, tobacco, and snuff.

1852 J. Ritchie Crucifixion xii. 447 See Him now ascend the skies, His people stupor-struck to see him rise.

1904 Cumberland Argus & Fruitgrowers' Advocate (Parramatta, New S. Wales) 10 Sept. 8/3 The stupor stricken miners awoke from their trance and cheered.

1988 L. Navarro et al. No More Varicose Veins vii. 95 Alcoholics and heavy drinkers..are..used to stupor-causing drugs.

2004 Indiana Gaz. 11 Dec. 12/2 When it comes to kids, you won't find the usual array of high-tech stupor-inducing gadgets.

Derivatives

ˈstupor-like adj. resembling or reminiscent of a stupor.

ΚΠ

1843 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Apr. 492 Many of the entombed persons were found on being dug out in a stupor like sleep.

1968 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examineε 19 Mar. 3 b/1 Covered in spittle and in a stupor-like daze, he did not even know his name.

2015 I. Way Envoys from Stars (e-book, accessed 16 Jan. 2019) 675 It was Winnie's voice behind them that stirred them out of their stupor-like state.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stupor
释义	stuporn. Brit. /ˈstjuːpə/, /ˈstʃuːpə/, U.S. /ˈst(j)upər/ Forms: Middle English–1500s stupore, Middle English–1600s stupour, Middle English– stupor, 1500s stupoure. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin stupor. Etymology: < classical Latin stupor state of being insensible, numbness, stupefaction, astonishment, wonder, amazement, dullness, stupidity < stupēre to be or become dazed, stunned, or speechless (see stupid adj.) + -or -or suffix.Compare Middle French, French stupeur , Old Occitan stupor , Italian stupore (all 14th cent.), Catalan estupor , Spanish estupor , Portuguese estupor (all 15th cent.). Specific senses. In the specific use with reference to mental illness (see sense 1b) after French stupeur (1801 in this sense, in the passage translated in quot. 1806). In sense 2b after post-classical Latin stupor mundi stupor mundi n. Pronunciation. N.E.D. (1919) gives the pronunciation of the English word as (stiū·pəɹ) /ˈstjuːpə(r)/, but that of the scientific Latin term as (stiū·pǫɹ) /ˈstjuːpɔː(r)/. 1. a. Originally: †loss of physical sensation in a part of the body, resulting from injury, cold, medication, etc. (= anaesthesia n. 1) (obsolete). In later use: a state of impaired consciousness, spec. when characterized by diminished responsiveness to stimuli; (in non-medical contexts) esp. such a state induced by alcohol or drugs.Quot. a1398 may alternatively be taken to show use of the Latin word in an English context. stupor of the teeth: (apparently) the tingling pain occurring when damaged teeth are exposed to cold or acidic substances (perhaps so called from a supposed resemblance to the pain occurring when sensation returns to a numbed area of skin) [after post-classical Latin stupor dentium (1363 in Chauliac; 16th cent. in translations of Galen, or earlier), translating ancient Greek αἱμωδία (Hippocrates, Galen); also in the Vulgate (Amos 4:6), translating Hellenistic Greek γομφιασμός] . ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] stupora1398 congelation1577 obstupescence1598 carus1605 coma1646 comatosity1805 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [noun] > state of physical stupefaction dazedness1340 excessa1387 stupora1398 stupefaction?a1425 dazingc1522 damp1542 daziness1554 dazzling1581 stupidity1603 stupidity?1615 stupidness1619 stupification1650 dream1717 dazzlement1841 daze1855 dazement1855 lull1856 mazement1901 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. vii. 351 Stupor is comelinge and stonynge of lymes and crokynge of þe vttir parties of þe body for coolde, so þat hit semeþ þat þe lymes schrinkeþ and slepiþ. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 140 (MED) Of stupore & congelacioun of teþe [L. de stupore et congelacione dencium], hote wyne or ewe ardent be holden in þe mouþ. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια xi. xxi. 873 Now stupor is a diminution of sense, the palsie a priuation of sense and motion, and a Convulsion is a motion involuntary or against our willes. 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxv. 295 For what is Stupor but that which the Greekes call ἀναισθησία, that is, a cessation from the Sense of other things? 1746 R. James in Moffett & Bennet's Health's Improvem. (new ed.) Introd. 12 Acid Eructations, which have in some Cases been so sharp as to induce a Stupor of the Teeth. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 413 There appear'd some signs of stupor from the medicine. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 455 The pricking pain like that of pins, or of a limb awaking from stupor. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. v. 71 An expergefaciant..was employed to rouse a patient from the lethargic stupor brought on by a large dose of opium. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxv. 289 James sank into a stupor which indicated the near approach of death. 1899 A. Conan Doyle Duet viii. 111 She had drunk herself into the stupor in which she had been found. 1958 First Aid (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) xi. 102 There are two degrees of unconsciousness apart from sleep:—Partial (Stupor); Complete (Coma). 2015 Sun (National ed.) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 16 He stabbed his father twice on December 12 last year as the tycoon lay in a drunken stupor. b. A form or manifestation of mental illness characterized by extreme apathy or inertia, typically with refusal to speak, eat, move, or interact with other people. Cf. catalepsy n. 1, catatonia n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > impairment of mental powers dementia1598 stupor1806 demency1858 Pick's disease1927 1806 D. Davis tr. P. Pinel Treat. Insanity 167 The news of the death of one of the brothers, and the derangement of the other, threw this third victim into a state of such consternation and stupor [Fr. stupeur] as might have defied the powers of ancient or modern poetry to describe it. 1853 tr. A. Brierre de Boismont Hallucinations vi. 135 Georget has given the name of stupor [Fr. stupidité] to this particular kind of madness, which Esquirol looked on as a variety of dementia (acute dementia). 1874 H. H. Newington in Jrnl. Mental Sci. 20 374 I therefore would suggest the use of the adjective ‘anergic’.., the title of course referring not to the patient in toto, but to his brain cells. We thus get two decided terms wherewith to grasp and separate the two forms, ‘anergic stupor’ on the one hand, ‘delusional stupor’ on the other. 1918 G. W. Jacoby Unsound Mind & Law 246 Sometimes the manic stupor arises in the midst of a depressive stupor. 2013 Jrnl. Emergency Nursing 39 138/2 Catatonic stupor is one of the most dramatic psychiatric presentations, but is becoming increasingly rare in the western world. 2. a. Wonder, admiration; amazement, astonishment. Now rare.Quot. a1398 may alternatively be taken to show use of the Latin word in an English context. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [noun] wonderc700 wonderingOE ferlya1300 marvelc1330 stupora1398 admirationc1425 admirativec1487 amazement1576 mazement1580 stupefaction1592 amazedness1593 astonishment1594 stonishment1594 amaze1598 surprisal1652 staggerment1933 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > awe, reverential wonder > [noun] stupora1398 fearc1400 awfulness1574 horror1579 religiona1642 awe1743 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > instance or example of miraclea1393 stupora1398 prodigy1595 wonderment1606 wonder1721 marvela1785 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > admiration > [noun] > overwhelming > condition of stupora1398 stare?a1500 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. vii. 351 Stupor is wondringe of a newe þinge & cetera. c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3662 (MED) Ilk one of thaym..merveillid in hoege stupour in thire thinges alle þerforne. 1542 T. Becon New Pollecye of Warre Prol. sig. B.ii^v Lorde God, wyth how great admiracion and stupore was I affected & striken? 1633 H. Hawkins Partheneia Sacra 237 That Cæsar of Cæsars in captiuing..Caligula the Roman Monark, to the stupour and amazement of the world. 1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico II. viii. 14 The exhibition [was] attended to with all the stupor and amazement imaginable by the two governors. 1856 H. N. Humphreys Stories by Archæologist & his Friends II. iv. 179 He saw, to his surprise and utter stupor, his cousin Gertrude bending over him and smiling. 1905 Daily Mail 25 Jan. 3/4 I have no doubt this letter will cause great stupor in England, where it will find all the attention that it deserves. 1954 This Week Mag. 9 May 27/1 From time to time the writers want Lucy's mouth to fall open in utter stupor—like Howe's Cavern. b. With of. A person pre-eminent in a specified class, sphere, or place; one who is an object of wonder or admiration. Now rare and only in (the) stupor of the world, ‘wonder of the world’, used as an epithet for the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250).This sense appears to have fallen out of use after the 17th cent.; the phrase (the) stupor of the world was apparently revived in the 20th cent. as a calque on the Latin phrase stupor mundi (see stupor mundi n.). ΚΠ 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered viii. 26 You Cynosura and Lucifer of nations, the stupor and admiration of the world, the admirable scholler of the Brittish soyle. 1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lxxiii. 727 What shall we say of Him,..the great Stupor and Wonder of Diuines? 1695 M. Micklethwait tr. Hist. Olivaires of Castile xxiv. 93 The Judges affirmed that he was the Stupor of Chivalry, and the whole Court went off amazed at his Valour. 1930 New Statesman 26 Apr. 83/2 They helped..Frederick the Second, the Stupor of the world, who so nearly overset the mediæval scheme. a1983 R. Payne Dream & Tomb: Hist. of Crusades (2000) 305 Matthew Paris called him Stupor Mundi et immutator mirabilis—Stupor of the world and marvelous changer of things. 3. a. A state of mental or spiritual dullness or numbness; intellectual or emotional apathy or torpor. Later esp.: a dazed or distracted state associated with the experience of a powerful emotion. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion dryheada1300 lethargyc1380 drynessc1450 dumping1542 unsensibility1551 insensibleness?1555 unsensibleness?1555 stupidity1568 stolidity1570 stupor1570 dumpishness1574 senselessness1577 innaturality1579 astoniedness1580 impassibility1603 stupefaction1603 torpor1607 deadness1611 unsufferance1611 hebetude1621 nonsense1621 drought1622 hebetation1623 obstupefaction1625 unanswerableness1626 tastelessnessa1631 insensateness1646 impassiveness1648 obtuseness1648 barrenness1655 torpulency1657 sterility1661 spiritlessness1669 unspiritedness1669 unaffectedness1678 insensibility1691 stolidness1727 apathy1742 impenetrableness1747 unfeelingness1766 impassivity1794 unfeeling1805 soullessness1811 incommobility1822 obtusity1823 unimpressibleness1830 hardhead1836 stockishness1837 insensitiveness1838 impenetrability1847 unreceptivity1849 unsusceptibility1850 woodenness1854 unimpressionability1862 irresponsiveness1864 unresponsiveness1869 impassibleness1874 irreceptivity1881 unimpressibility1889 apatheia1893 inemotivity1894 affectlessness1921 insensitivity1957 the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > stupefaction ecstasyc1384 mazednessc1395 astounedness1549 stupor1570 stupefaction1592 obstupescence1598 obstupefaction1625 1570 T. Tymme tr. A. Marlorat Catholike & Eccles. Expos. Mathewe x. 219 A brutishe and beastly stupor, and dulnesse, whiche by the terrour of death, maketh them to cast from them the confession of the same faythe. a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) 267 That stupor and benummedness of spirit, whereby men are made unapprehensive of their afflictions. 1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett III. cxxv. 91 Emma was folding his clay-cold body in her arms. She seemed to be lost in a stupor of irremediable grief. 1844 Classical Museum 1 395 Ignorance, stupor, apathy, and unreasonable credulity or scepticism, are characteristics of barbarity. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lx. 457 A downcast stupor and sense of abasement possessed every man. 1905 W. J. Locke Morals Marcus Ordeyne xxi. 259 For aught I could see he dwelt in a mild stupor of happiness, absorbed in the intoxication of a tremulous pursuit. 2013 E. Fremantle Queen's Gambit iii. 79 Dot goes about in a bewildered stupor, hardly knowing where to put herself. b. A state or period of relative inactivity, lack of incident, etc., in a particular place or sphere. ΚΠ 1855 B. Disraeli in W. F. Monypenny & G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli (1916) IV. i. 23 There has been a great stupor over affairs since we parted, or since I last wrote, but there are now indications of events. 1879 J. Morley Burke iv. 62 The war with the American colonies was preceded by an interval of stupor. 1931 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 26 Jan. 8/1 The rail shares once more pulled the stock market out of its stupor today and the list closed with a strong tone. 1964 Indian Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 25 ii. 67 He views Asia emerging from a long period of stupor and quiescence. 2010 Gaz. (Colorado Springs) 10 Oct. a4/3 Cutting the state's budget means more money in private hands, which could pull the state from its economic stupor. †4. Ideas or thinking characteristic of a person who is stupid; stupidity, idiocy. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only in the writings of Thomas Carlyle. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] hardnessOE stuntnessc1000 sotshipc1050 witlessnessa1100 sotheada1200 dullness1398 bluntness1483 slowness1495 grossnessa1530 stupidity?1541 assishness?1548 dastardness1552 lourderie1555 dastardliness1556 blockishness1561 doltishness1569 sottage1569 sheepishness1574 doltry1581 sottishness1589 doltage1593 dorbellism1593 grout-headry1600 opacity1611 duncery1615 dunstery1615 stupidness1619 hebetude1621 insulsity1623 unintelligence1634 obtuseness1648 jobbernowlism1652 dullery1653 non-intelligence1653 blockheadishness1656 crassness1664 blockheadedness1716 stolidness1727 blockheadism1753 numbskullity1779 nincompoophood1791 duncishness1805 numbskullism1806 foziness1821 noodledum1821 obtusity1823 soft-headedness1823 noodledom1827 duncehood1829 dunderheadedness1830 sumphishness1830 asininity1831 dunderheadism1836 stockishness1837 dullardness1840 fat-headedness1840 stupor1845 duncedom1847 misintelligence1848 nincompoopery1850 wooden-headedness1850 dumminess1852 jolterheadedness1852 ninnyship1852 donkeyism1855 dumbness1860 beef-wittedness1863 crassitude1865 donkeyhood1869 slow-wittedness1869 chuckle-headedness1880 leatherheadedness1880 pinheadedness1884 numbskulledness1885 donkeydom1889 thickheadedness1889 density1894 moronism1922 nitwittedness1931 nitwittery1931 noodleness1931 dopiness1942 squirrel-headedness1955 nincompoopism1957 dim-wittedness1960 clottishness1961 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 117 One stupid Annotator on a certain Copy of this Letter says, ‘His Lordship had an intrigue with Mrs. Claypole’;—which is evidently downright stupor and falsehood. Compounds Instrumental and objective, with participles, as stupor-inducing, stupor-producing, stupor-stricken, etc., adjectives. ΚΠ 1823 Republican 18 July 46 The soporific and stupor producing qualities of beer, spirits, tobacco, and snuff. 1852 J. Ritchie Crucifixion xii. 447 See Him now ascend the skies, His people stupor-struck to see him rise. 1904 Cumberland Argus & Fruitgrowers' Advocate (Parramatta, New S. Wales) 10 Sept. 8/3 The stupor stricken miners awoke from their trance and cheered. 1988 L. Navarro et al. No More Varicose Veins vii. 95 Alcoholics and heavy drinkers..are..used to stupor-causing drugs. 2004 Indiana Gaz. 11 Dec. 12/2 When it comes to kids, you won't find the usual array of high-tech stupor-inducing gadgets. Derivatives ˈstupor-like adj. resembling or reminiscent of a stupor. ΚΠ 1843 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Apr. 492 Many of the entombed persons were found on being dug out in a stupor like sleep. 1968 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examineε 19 Mar. 3 b/1 Covered in spittle and in a stupor-like daze, he did not even know his name. 2015 I. Way Envoys from Stars (e-book, accessed 16 Jan. 2019) 675 It was Winnie's voice behind them that stirred them out of their stupor-like state. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398
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