hebetude
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He detested the mob for its human hebetude.
From Time Magazine Archive
So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces.
From Time Magazine Archive
We are on the eve of a Jubilee Year, when the halcyon shall plume his wing, and we shall hear much oratorical trash and hebetude about the peacefulness of this happy reign.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
It is always preceded by an uncomfortable feeling in the head, and pain in the back, mental hebetude, and slight depression.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Havelock Ellis
Now that his mariner's nose was turned toward the sea once again after his two years of landsman's hebetude, all his seaman's instinct, all his seaman's caution, revived.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
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