different between stupor vs stupefaction

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)

1. 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.
2. 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)

1. 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

1. Numbness; dullness, insensibility, stupidity, stupefaction; astonishment, wonder, amazement.

   Synonym: torpor

2. (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

1. indefinite plural of stupa

Anagrams

• utrops

English

Etymology

From Middle French stupéfaction, from Latin stupefaci? (“strike dumb, stun with amazement, stupefy”), from stupe? (“I am stunned, speechless”) (English stupid, stupor) + faci? (“do, make”).

Noun

stupefaction (countable and uncountable, plural stupefactions)

1. The state of extreme shock or astonishment.
2. A state of insensibility; stupor.

Related terms

• stupefy
• stupid
• stupor

Translations