different between stupor vs clonic
stupor
English
Alternative forms
- stupour (obsolete)
Etymology
Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin stupor (“insensibility, numbness, dullness”). Distantly related (from Proto-Indo-European, via Proto-Germanic) to stint, stub, and steep.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?stju?.p?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?stu.p?/, /?stju.p?/
- Rhymes: -u?p?(?)
Noun
stupor (countable and uncountable, plural stupors)
- A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly medicine) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.
- A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.
- Synonym: daze
Related terms
- stupefy
- stupefaction
- stupendous
- stupid
Translations
Verb
stupor (third-person singular simple present stupors, present participle stuporing, simple past and past participle stupored) (transitive)
- To place into a stupor; to stupefy.
References
- “stupor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “stupor”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Anagrams
- Portus, Proust, Sprout, Stroup, Troups, sprout
Latin
Etymology
From stupe? (“to be struck senseless, be stunned, be astonished”) +? -or (nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?stu.por/, [?s?t??p?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?stu.por/, [?st?u?p?r]
Noun
stupor m (genitive stup?ris); third declension
- Numbness; dullness, insensibility, stupidity, stupefaction; astonishment, wonder, amazement.
- Synonym: torpor
- (especially) Dullness, stupidity, stolidity.
Inflection
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- stup?r?tus (adjective)
Descendants
References
- stupor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- stupor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stupor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- stupor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Swedish
Noun
stupor
- indefinite plural of stupa
Anagrams
- utrops
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clonic
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kl?n?k/
Etymology
clonus +? -ic
Adjective
clonic (comparative more clonic, superlative most clonic)
- Pertaining to clonus; having irregular, convulsive spasms.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
- Hospital attendants stand by to drag the children off, drooling, screaming, having clonic convulsions.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Antonyms
- tonic
Translations
Anagrams
- Concil.
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