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catatonia - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

catatonia (usually uncountable, plural catatonias)

  • A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
  • (informal) A frozen, unresponsive state, as of electronic equipment.
    • ✤ “Relay that!” Thwaite shouted. Somewhere on the bridge a hand closed over a relay and dropped the AIDs into an electronic catatonia.1

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from German Katatonie, from New Latin catatonia, from a Greek word meaning to stretch tight. By surface analysis, cata- +‎ tone +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˌkætəˈtoʊniə/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. 1998, David Drake, Thomas T. Thomas, Crisis of Empire Book I: An Honorable Defense: ↩

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