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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STUPOR, n. [L.]
1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense; numbness; as the stupor of a limb.
2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to ones interests.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; "his mother's death left him in a daze"; "he was numb with shock" [syn: daze, shock, stupor]
2: marginal consciousness; "his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion as by the blows"; "someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor" [syn: grogginess, stupor, stupefaction, semiconsciousness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, from stup?re Date: 14th century 1. a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility <a drunken stupor> 2. a state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock ; daze Synonyms: see lethargy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a dazed, torpid, or helplessly amazed state. Derivatives: stuporous adj. Etymology: ME f. L (as STUPENDOUS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stupor Stu"por, n. [L., from stupere to be struck senseless.] 1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy. 2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stupors) Someone who is in a stupor is almost unconscious and is unable to act or think normally, especially as a result of drink or drugs. He fell back onto the sofa in a drunken stupor... N-COUNT: usu sing, oft in/into a N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Lethargy, narcosis, torpor, numbness, coma, stupefaction.

Moby Thesaurus

KO, abstraction, abulia, acedia, alienation, aloofness, amnesia, anesthesia, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blackout, blah, blahs, boredom, catalepsy, cataplexy, catatonia, catatonic stupor, catatony, coma, comatoseness, compulsion, daydreaming, daze, dejection, depression, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, dream state, drowsiness, dullness, elation, emotionalism, encephalitis lethargica, enervation, ennui, euphoria, faint, fatigue, folie du doute, fugue, fugue state, grayout, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, high, hopelessness, hypnotic trance, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, inanimation, inappetence, indifference, inertia, inertness, insensibility, insouciance, jadedness, kayo, knockout, lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, laziness, lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, lipothymia, lipothymy, listlessness, mania, melancholia, mental distress, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, nirvana, nirvana principle, nod, nonchalance, nothingness, numbness, oblivion, obliviousness, obsession, oscitancy, passiveness, passivity, pathological indecisiveness, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, preoccupation, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, resignation, resignedness, reverie, satedness, sedation, semiconsciousness, senselessness, shock, sleep, sleepiness, sleeping sickness, sleepwalking, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, slumber, somnambulism, somnolence, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, supineness, swoon, syncope, thanatosis, tic, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, trance, twitching, unconcern, unconsciousness, unresponsiveness, weariness, withdrawal, withdrawnness, world-weariness