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torpor - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

torpor (countable and uncountable, plural torpors)

• A state of being inactive or stuporous.
• A state of apathy or lethargy.
  • ✤ Synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness, languor, torpidity
  • ✤ She knew that she was the cause of her husband’s utter ruin; and she strung herself to bear the consequences. The reproaches which agony extorted; or worse, cureless, uncomplaining depression, when his mind was sunk in a torpor, not the less painful because it was silent and moveless.¹
• (biology) A state similar to hibernation characterised by energy-conserving, very deep sleep.
  • ✤ Coordinate terms: hibernation, aestivation, cold sleep, hypersleep, suspended animation

Etymology

From Latin torpor (“numbness”), from torpeō (“to be numb”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɔːpə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA: /ˈtɔɹpɚ/
• Audio (US): 🔊
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC: ↩

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