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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Dullness of mind; mental lethargy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Obtuseness; dullness; lethargy; stupidity.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Mental lethargy or dullness.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Dullness; stupidity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. mental lethargy or dullness

Etymologies

  1. From Late Latin hebetūdō. (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin hebetūdō, from Latin hebes, hebet-, dull. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • fbharjo Also see i-do-itude
    Apr 30, 2013

  • fbharjo It begs 'shebecomestude' ! What does that elicit? Apr 30, 2013

  • yarb A favourite of Conrad, along with desuetude and mansuetude. Apr 30, 2013

  • alexz étudiant
    "student" to French Apr 30, 2013

  • fbharjo Is there a relationship with etude and student? Apr 30, 2013

  • alexz the *tude abides http://www.wordnik.com/search/*tude
    Apr 30, 2013

  • rolig Someone needs to create a tude list. I'd do it myself if it weren't for this damn hebetude going around. Apr 30, 2013

  • knitandpurl "Insensibility, melancholia, hebetude; ordinary mental tumult and more elaborate physical vexations (boils, a variety of thrip that caused the skin of an unfaithful lover to erupt in a spectacular rash, the color of violet mallows)—Saloona Morn cultivated these in her parterre in the shadow of Cobalt Mountain."
    "Return of the Fire Witch" by Elizabeth Hand, p 209 of Errantry: Strange Stories Apr 29, 2013

  • epeolatrist i...buh...ermm.. what? oh. durrr Aug 8, 2009

  • bilby "From that solitude, full of despair and terror, he was torn out brutally, with kicks and blows, passive, sunk in hebetude."
    - Joseph Conrad, 'Nostromo'. Aug 7, 2009

  • rolig I can never seem to make myself remember what this word means. I wonder why? May 3, 2008

  • rolig Does this word have any relation to Hebe, the cupbearer of the gods? Or the heebie-jeebies? May 3, 2008

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