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
He has hebetude and some delirium, though not very active; he is deaf.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
There is frequently less mental hebetude or dulness than in ordinary typhoid fever.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Even in her dullest moments of physical and mental hebetude she felt something pressing upon her from within for accomplishment, like a piece of unfinished business that she must presently rouse herself to put through.
From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick
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