Torpidity

Definition: Torpidity

Torpidity

Noun

1. A state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility; "he fell into a deep torpor".

2. Inactivity resulting from torpidity and lack of vigor or energy.

Date "torpidity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Domain	Definition
Health	Sluggishness; apathy; numbness. (references)
Medicine	Torpor:sluggishness; apathy; numbness. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Torpidity

Synonyms: listlessness (n), torpidness (n), torpor (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inactivity	Dullness; Adjective: languor; segnity, segnitude; lentor; sluggishness; (slowness); procrastination; (delay); torpor, torpidity, torpescence; stupor; (insensibility); somnolence; drowsiness; Adjective: nodding; Verb: oscitation, oscitancy; pandiculation, hypnotism, lethargy; statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids.
Insensibility	Torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness; (physical insensibility).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Torpidity

English words defined with "torpidity": listlessness ♦ torpidness, torpor. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Strategies in Cold: Natural Torpidity and Thermogenesis (reference) (more book examples)
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Language		Translations for "torpidity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		topitje (bewilderment, obtuseness, torpor), mpirje (numbness, stupefaction, stupor, torpor). (various references)

Arabic		‏فتور (coldness, coolness, frigidity, languishment, letdown, lethargy, sluggishness, tepidity, torpor), ‏تخدير (anaesthetization, anesthetization, narcosis), ‏بلادة (dullness, lethargy, sluggishness, stupidity, torpor). (various references)

Bulgarian		тъпота (bluntness, crassitude, density, dullness, obtuseness, opacity, purblindness, stolidity, stupidity, torpor), вцепененост (numbness, torpor), безразличие (disinterest, frigidity, incuriosity, indifference, insensibility, languor, unconcern), безчувственост (analgesia, impassibility, insensibility, insensitivity, insusceptibility, stolidity). (various references)

Czech		strnulost (numbness, stupor, torpor), apatie (apathy, impassivity, indifference, listlessness, torpor). (various references)

Danish		torpor, torpiditet. (various references)

French		torpidité, torpeur (torpor), engourdissement (torpor). (various references)

German		trägheit (idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertial, inertness, languidness, languishment, languor, lassitude, laziness, lethargy, phlegm, shiftlessness, sloth, sluggishness, supineness, torpor), Torpidität, schlaffheit (exhaustion, flabbiness, floppiness, inertness, limpness, listlessness, looseness, slackness, softness, torpor), phlegma (apathy, indifference, phlegm, sluggishness, stolidness, torpor). (various references)

Greek		νάρκωση (narcosis, numbness, sedation). (various references)

Hebrew		ק�"ות חושים (obtuseness, stupefaction, stupor), אטיות (lateness, procrastination, slowliness, slowness, tardiness). (various references)

Hungarian		tunyaság (accidie, enervation, inactivity, indolence, inertia, languidity, laziness, slothfulness). (various references)

Indonesian		kebisingan (torpor). (various references)

Italian		torpore (numbness, stupefaction, torpor). (various references)

Manx		magganeys (numbness, torpor), kyrloghid (anaesthesia, deadness, insensibility, loss of feeling, numbness, senselessness, torpor), drommid (dullness). (various references)

Pig Latin		orpiditytay

Portuguese		letargia (coma, lethargy, stupor), inércia (doldrums, lethargy, lifelessness, passivity, rest), entorpecimento (kief, numbness, paralysis, stupefaction, stupor, torpor), apatia (apathy, indifference, insensibility, lethargy, phlegm, unconcern). (various references)

Romanian		amorţealã (drowsiness, heaviness, numbness, somnolence, somnolency, stupidity, stupor, torpidness, torpor, weakness). (various references)

Russian		онемелость. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tupost (bluntness, dullness, stolidity, stupor, thickness), ukočenost (crick, numbness, stiffness, stupor, torpor). (various references)

Spanish		torpidez, letargo (heaviness, lethargy, slumber, torpor), embotamiento (bluntness, torpor). (various references)

Swedish		slöhet (aparthy, apathy, bluntness, dullness, indolence, inertia, languor, lassitude, laziness, lethargy, sloth, spend, torpor), overskamhet, lojhet (indolence), dvala (apathy, coma, dormancy, doze, lethargy, stupor, torpor). (various references)

Turkish		uyuşukluk (deadness, dormancy, drowsiness, indolence, inertia, inertness, lethargy, numbness, sloth, sluggishness, somnolence, stupefaction, stupor, torpidness, torpor), hissizlik (anaesthesia, anesthesia, apathy, deadness, impassivity, indifference, insensibility, insensitiveness, insensitivity, numbness, torpidness, torpor), cansızlık (inanimation, inertness, languor, lifelessness, sluggishness, spontaneous generation, stagnation, torpidness, torpor, washiness, weakness). (various references)

Ukrainian		сплячка (sleep), оніміння (torpor), бездіяльність (hibernation, inaction, inactivity, non-feasance, otiosity, slack, standstill). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính trì độn (torpidness), tính mê mụ (torpidness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "torpidity" (pronounced 'Tor*pid"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-i-i-o-p-r-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: tripody.
	-3 letters: torpid, tripod.
	-4 letters: dirty, ditto, ditty, dorty, dotty, dript, droit, dropt, idiot, potty, pyoid, torii.
	-5 letters: dipt, dirt, doit, dopy, dorp, dory, doty, drip, drop, irid, pity, port, prod, riot, ropy, roti, ryot, tidy, tipi, tiro, titi, tody, toit, topi, tori, tort, tory, trio, trip, trod, trop, trot, troy, typo, tyro, yird.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-i-o-p-r-t-t-y"
	+3 letters: productivity.
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