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hebetude

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heb·e·tude  (hb-td, -tyd)
n.
Dullness of mind; mental lethargy.
[Late Latin hebetd, from Latin hebes, hebet-, dull.]
hebe·tudi·nous (-tdn-s, -tyd-) adj.
hebetude [ˈhɛbɪˌtjuːd]
n
Rare mental dullness or lethargy
[from Late Latin hebetūdō, from Latin hebes blunt]
hebetudinous  adj
hebetude
the state, condition, or quality of being dull, enervated, or lethargie. — hebetudinous, adj.
See also: Fatigue
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Noun1.hebetude - mental lethargy or dullness
lassitude, lethargy, sluggishness - a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
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HEBETIC (of puberty) and HEBETUDE (dull, lethargic) are likewise unrelated.
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One should never underestimate the professionally grown hebetude of academic writing, but it is so spectacular in Calvet's case that one can't help correlating the vacancy of his enterprise - its lack of center, its compensatory filler, its inability to know or say what it wants to do - to the act of evacuation with which he seems to have begun it.
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