different between acatalepsy vs catalepsy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?- (a-) + ????????????? (katalambánein, “to seize”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /e??kæ.t?.l?p.si/, /??kæ.t?.l?p.si/

Noun

acatalepsy (uncountable)

1. Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

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Alternative forms

• catalepsis (dated)

Etymology

From cata- +? -lepsy; ultimately from Ancient Greek ????????? (katál?psis, “act of seizing”), from ??????????? (katalambán?, “I seize”), from ???? (katá, “against”) + ??????? (lambán?, “I take”).

Noun

catalepsy (plural catalepsies)

1. (pathology) severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity, fixation of posture, and loss of contact with environmental conditions
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 190]:

     I was furious with Edgar Allan Poe for writing so accurately about this. His tales of catalepsy and live burial poisoned my childhood, and still killed me.

Derived terms

• cataleptic
• cataleptoid

Related terms

• catatonic
• catatonia

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See also

• catalepsy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia