hebetude

Example Sentences

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So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces.

From Time Magazine Archive

He detested the mob for its human hebetude.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Herrick, Robert

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 Ellis, Havelock

The mind in relapsing fever is usually clear, there being none of the hebetude and mental confusion commonly observed in typhoid fever.

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