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Definition: Stupefaction |
StupefactionNoun1. A feeling of stupefied astonishment. 2. Marginal consciousness; "his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion and by the blows"; "someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor". 3. The action of stupefying; making dull or lethargic; "the professor was noted for his stupefaction of the students". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stupefaction" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: StupefactionSynonyms: grogginess (n), semiconsciousness (n), stupor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Passiveness; (physical inertness); hebetude, hebetation; impassibility; (insensibility); stupefaction. |
Insensibility | Torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness; (physical insensibility). |
Wonder | Noun: wonder, marvel; astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment; amazedness; Adjective: admiration, awe; stupor, stupefaction; stound, fascination; sensation; surprise; (inexpectation) O. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stupefaction |
| English words defined with "stupefaction": Obstupefaction ♦ sottishness, Stupefacient. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stupefaction": Ethylene Chlorohydrin. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Gribier looked at him with stupefaction. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Stupefaction" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stupefaction" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "stupefaction"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trullosje (dazing, stunning, stupor), mpirje (numbness, stupor, torpidity, torpor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غيبوبة (coma, shock, stupor, zombie), ذهول (absence, abstractedness, amazement, astonishment, bewilderment, distraction, maze, stun, stupor, trance), خدر (anaesthesia, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthesia, anesthetize, benumb, creep, deaden, drug, look out, narcotize, numb, numbness, opiate, stupefy, stupor, torpid, torpor), خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, craze, dementia, derange, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, spare, stagger, stultify, stun, stupefy, tangle, unbalance), إنشداه (stupor, tenseness, wonder), إذهال, دهشة (amazement, astonishment, wonder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слисване (amazement, transfixion), притъпяване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | úžas (astonishment, bewilderment, surprise, wonderment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گیجی (Bafflement, Muddle, Quandary, Razzledazzle, Stun, Stupor), گیج سازی , تخدیر, بیهوشی (Anaesthesia, Anesthesia, Stupidity, Syncope, Trance), بهت (Amazement, Consternation, Perplexity, Stupor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pökerrys, hölmistys (amazement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stupeur (stupor), stupéfaction, hébétude. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Betäubung (anaesthesia, anaesthetization, anesthetic, anesthetization, daze, dazing, deadening, numbing, stunning, torpidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποβλάκωση (sottishness, stultification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ת""מ" (astonishment, consternation, dismay, shock), ק"ות חושים (obtuseness, stupor, torpidity), ""ום (stupor), טמטום (dulling, lubberliness, muddleheadedness, stupidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elképedés (abashment, amazement, bewilderment, stupor, surprise), elkábulás, kábultság (dizziness, narcosis, stupor, torpor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stupore (amazement, astonishment, daze, stupor, surprise, wonder, wonderment), stordimento (daze), torpore (numbness, torpor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 自失 , 混迷 (confusion, stupor, unconsciousness), 昏迷 (confusion, stupor, unconsciousness), 失神 (faint, swoon, trance), 失心 (faint, swoon, trance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しっし" (eczema, faint, swoon, trance), ""めい (confusion, kind words, stupor, unconsciousness), じしつ (hemorrhoids, infections or diseases of the ear, one's own room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thollaneys (dizziness, giddiness, headiness, stupor, vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | upefactionstay pasmo (gape, stupor, wonder, wonderment, wonderwork), estupefação (amaze, consternation, daze), entorpecimento (kief, numbness, paralysis, stupor, torpidity, torpor), assombro (amaze, amazement, astonishment, daze, marvel, miracle, wonderment). (various references) stupoare (stupor), stupefacţie, buimãcealã (alarm, confusion, consternation, dismay, dizziness). (various references) оцепенение (catalepsy, consternation, numbness, petrifaction, rigor, stupor, torpidity, torpor). (various references) ošamućivanje. (various references) estupefacción. (various references) omtöcknat, häpnad (amazement). (various references) sersemleme (dizziness, giddiness, stagger, stupor), uyuşukluk (deadness, dormancy, drowsiness, indolence, inertia, inertness, lethargy, numbness, sloth, sluggishness, somnolence, stupor, torpidity, torpidness, torpor), uyuşma (accommodation, agreement, alignment, anesthesia, axis, bargain, compromise, concurence, consonance, entente, equalization, give and take, narcosis, numbness, pins and needles, understanding), şaşalama. (various references) сильне здивування, остовпіння (catalepsy). (various references) trạng thái hết sức kinh ngạc, trạng thái đờ người ra, tình trạng u mê trạng thái sững sờ. (various references) madrondod (giddiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | stupor, stupore, stuporem, stuporis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stupefaction": stupefactions. (additional references) | |
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"Stupefaction" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stupefacation, stupefation, supefaction. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "stupefaction" (pronounced 'Stu`pe*fac"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-n-o-p-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: constipate. | |
-3 letters: facetious, fetations, outpaints, pittances, taconites, tenacious, tunicates. | |
-4 letters: aconites, auctions, autopsic, canoeist, canopies, capstone, captions, captious, cautions, confetti, confutes, counties, ectopias, entastic, eustatic, factions, factious, faintest, fanciest, fetation, fistnote, nepotist, nictates, opencast, opuntias, oscitant, outcaste, outfaces, outfeast, outpaces, outpaint, outspent, pactions, pantsuit, patients, petunias, pittance, postface, poutiest, punctate, saponite, sonicate, stenotic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-n-o-p-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: putrefactions, stupefactions. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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