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

Less common are the following: mental hebetude, lasting some days or even weeks after the close of the last paroxysm, or, as in a case of Carter's, gradually increasing mental feebleness, terminating in imbecility.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

"A debauched old fellow," says Friedrich; "gone all to hebetude by his labors in that line; agrees always with the last speaker."

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas

Summer alone could bring them together again—the one from the dry gloom of the barn, the other from the cold seclusion of its wintry hebetude.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George