Antonyms:
| acuteness, | brilliancy, | keenness, | sagacity, |
| alertness, | cleverness, | quickness, | sense, |
| animation, | intelligence, | readiness, | sensibility. |
STUPOR.
Synonyms:
| apathy, | fainting, | stupefaction, | syncope, |
| asphyxia, | insensibility, | swoon, | torpor, |
| coma, | lethargy, | swooning, | unconsciousness. |
Stupor is a condition of the body in which the action of the senses and faculties is suspended or greatly dulled—weakness or loss of sensibility. The apathy of disease is a mental affection, a state of morbid indifference; lethargy is a morbid tendency to heavy and continued sleep, from which the patient may perhaps be momentarily aroused. Coma is a deep, abnormal sleep, from which the patient can not be aroused, or is aroused only with difficulty, a state of profound insensibility, perhaps with full pulse and deep, stertorous breathing, and is due to brain-oppression. Syncope or swooning is a sudden loss of sensation and of power of motion, with suspension of pulse and of respiration, and is due to failure of heart-action, as from sudden nervous shock or intense mental emotion. Insensibility is a general term denoting loss of feeling from any cause, as from cold, intoxication, or injury. Stupor is especially profound and confirmed insensibility, properly comatose. Asphyxia is a special form of syncope resulting from partial or total suspension of respiration, as in strangulation, drowning, or inhalation of noxious gases.
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