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Lethargy
Answer for the clue "Lethargy ", 8 letters:
hebetude
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Word definitions for hebetude in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mental lethargy or dullness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hebetude \Heb"e*tude\, n. [L. hebetudo.] Dullness; stupidity. --Harvey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin hebetudo , noun of quality from hebes "blunt, dull," of unknown origin. Related: Hebetate (v.); hebetation ; hebetudinous .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. mental lethargy or dullness.
Usage examples of hebetude.
The triumphant Iaveh kept Adam and Eve and all their seed in a condition of hebetude and terror.
The counselors and I did some temperate jesting at the king, suggesting that he ruled a people so sunk in hebetude that they were no longer even litigious.
He sat upon a low chair, his long legs, his violet-circled eyes staring out with a look of hebetude and overwhelming fatigue.
Though the lingering consciousness of Grimmerdhore had been reduced to hebetude by time and the ancient slaughter of the One Forest, it was slowly taking heat, mounting toward outrage.
Both, however, began to feel the oncreeping of a sleepy hebetude which, under the circumstances, was most undesirable.