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Definition: Hebetude |
HebetudeNoun1. Mental lethargy or dullness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hebetude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Etymology: Hebetude \Heb"e*tude\, noun. [Latin expression hebetudo.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | Stupidity or dullness; condition of lethargy and impairment of the special senses which accompanies acute fever. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Passiveness; (physical inertness); hebetude, hebetation; impassibility; (insensibility); stupefaction. |
Imbecility Folly | Noun: want of -intelligence; want of -intellect; shadowness, silliness, foolishness; Adjective: imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence; (unskillfulness). |
Insensibility | Noun: insensibility, insensibleness; moral insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae; impassibility, impassibleness; inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "hebetude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | البلادة (bluntness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hebetudo, sloevsind (mental dullness), afstumpethed (dullness, torpor), aandssloevhed (mental dullness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hebetudo (mental dullness), stupiditeit (stupidity), stupiditas (stupidity), stompzinnigheid (mental dullness, stupidity), stompheid (dull, dullness, matt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hébétude. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hebetudo, Stumpfsinningkeit (mental dullness), Stumpfheit (bluntness, dullness, languor, obtuseness, stolidness, stupor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βλακεία (fatuity, foolishness, goofiness, idiocy, imbecility, mental dullness, muff, nonsense, sheepishness, silliness, stupidity, stupidness, tomfoolery), αποχαύνωση (mental dullness, stupefaction), αδράνεια (dormancy, dullness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, inertness, mental dullness, remissness, sluggishness, stupor, torpor, vegetativeness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | torbidit (cloudiness, turbidity), stupidit (density, fool, foolishness, senselessness, silliness, stupidity), ebetudine (mental dullness), ebetismo, apatia (apathy, indifference, torpor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ebetudehay obnubilação (mental dullness), copeira (kitchen range). (various references) тупость (bluntness, dullness, obtuseness, opaqueness, stupidity, woodenness), тупоумие (pigheadedness, stupidity). (various references) hipofunción, hebetud (mental dullness), embrutecimiento (brutalization), embotamiento mental (mental dullness), deficiencia (deficiency, elimination, impairment). (various references) aptallık (crime, fatuity, floater, Folly, foolery, fooling, foolishness, footle, idiocy, ineptitude, silliness, stupidity). (various references) тупоумство (density, imbecility). (various references) sự u mê, sự ngây dại (muzziness, vacuity), sự đần độn (amentia, crassitude, doltishness, purblindness, stupidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hebetude": hebetudes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "hebetude" (pronounced 'Heb"e*tude'): Acerbitude, Acritude, Altitude, Amaritude, Amplitude, Anxietude, Aptitude, Assuetude, Attitude, Beatitude, Certitude, Claritude, Colatitude, Consuetude, Crassitude, Crebritude, Decrepitude, Definitude, Desuetude, Disertitude, Disquiettude, Dissimilitude, Dulcitude, Egritude, 'Etude, Exacritude, Fessitude, finitude, Firmitude, fortitude, gratitude, habitude, inaptitude, incertitude, Indefinitude, ineptitude, Inertitude, inexactitude, infinitude, ingratitude, inquietude, Insuetude, Inverisimilitude, lassitude, Lenitude, Lentitude, Limpitude, Lippitude, magnitude, Mansuetude, Mollitude, Multitude, Necessitude, Nigritude, Overmultitude, Pinguitude, Platitude, Plenitude, Promptitude, Pulchritude, Quietude, rectitude, Sanctitude, Senectitude, Serenitude, servitude, similitude, solicitude, solitude, Spissitude, Torpitude, turpitude, Unitude, Unquietude, Vastitude, Verisimilitude, Vicissitude. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-h-t-u" | |
-3 letters: debut, etude, thebe, tubed. | |
-4 letters: bedu, beet, beth, bhut, bute, debt, deet, duet, hebe, heed, hued, teed, thee, thud, tube. | |
-5 letters: bed, bee, bet, bud, but, deb, dee, dub, due, duh, edh, eth, het, hub, hue, hut, ted, tee, the, tub. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-e-h-t-u" | |
+1 letter: hebetudes. | |
+2 letters: bequeathed. | |
+4 letters: mouthbreeder. | |
+5 letters: mouthbreeders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 62 65 74 75 64 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . -... . - ..- -.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100010 01100101 01110100 01110101 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e b e t u d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0062 0065 0074 0075 0064 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271687186877071 |
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