Torpor

Definition: Torpor

Torpor

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 "torpor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Etymology: Torpor \Tor"por\, noun. [Latin expression, from torpere, to be torpid.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Medicine	State of mental and motor inactivity with partial insensibility, stagnation of function, without losing consciousness. Source: European Union. (references)
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Torpor is a state of regulated hypothermia, lasting just a few hours. It is a condition when body temperature of endotherm is lower than normal. Animals that go through torpor include small birds like hummingbirds and some small mammals such as bats. During the active part of their day these animals maintain normal body temperature, but their body temperature drops to conserve energy while asleep. Torpor is used to survive in the cold. As soon as the temperature is recovered, the organism is able to continue its activities. Torpor can be beneficial to an organism because it allows the organism to save the amount of energy used. There can also be a disadvantage when the animal is back on regular activity, the source of food may be limited.

Synonyms: Torpor

Synonyms: listlessness (n), torpidity (n), torpidness (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).
Physical Inertness	Noun: inertness, dullness; Adjective: inertia, vis inertiae, inertion, inactivity, torpor, languor; quiescence; latency, inaction; passivity.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Torpor

English words defined with "torpor": Accidie ♦ Benumbment ♦ lassitude, lethargy ♦ sluggishness ♦ Torporific. (references)

Etymologies containing "torpor": Narcissus ♦ Torporific. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Torpor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (numbness, torpor), Portuguese (daze, dullness, lethargy, numbness, slumber, torpor), Spanish (torpor).

Domain	Title
Books	Hibernation and Daily Torpor : Ecology, Physiology and Molecular Biology (reference) Hibernation and Torpor in Mammals and Birds (Physiological Ecology) (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Slovenia	The banking sector also is showing signs of stirring from its relative torpor, as pressures to consolidate its myriad banks build and privatization of two of Slovenia's largest banks gradually gets underway. (references)
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"Torpor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Torpor" is used about 56 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%	56	45,296

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Language		Translations for "torpor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		topitje (bewilderment, obtuseness, torpidity), plogështi (angularity, apathy, idleness, inaction, indolence, inertia, languor, lassitude, phlegm, sloth, tardiness), ngathtësi (angularity, atony, awkwardness, backwardness, clumsiness, muff), mpirje (numbness, stupefaction, stupor, torpidity), apati (apathy, doldrums, listlessness). (various references)

Arabic		‏فتور (coldness, coolness, frigidity, languishment, letdown, lethargy, sluggishness, tepidity, torpidity), ‏سبات (coma, lethargy, sleep, sopor, stupor), ‏خدارة, ‏خدار (anaesthesia, anesthesia), ‏خدر (anaesthesia, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthesia, anesthetize, benumb, creep, deaden, drug, look out, narcotize, numb, numbness, opiate, stupefaction, stupefy, stupor, torpid), ‏بلادة (dullness, lethargy, sluggishness, stupidity, torpidity). (various references)

Bulgarian		тъпота (bluntness, crassitude, density, dullness, obtuseness, opacity, purblindness, stolidity, stupidity, torpidity), вцепененост (numbness, torpidity), неподвижност (accidie, acedia, fixedness, fixity, immobility, immovability, quiescence, quiescency, rigidity, stagnancy), затъпялост, апатия (accidie, acedia, apathy, indifference, insensibility, languor, lassitude). (various references)

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

Danish		sloevhed (drowsiness, lassitude), katalepsi (akinesis, catalepsy, rigidity, stupor), dvaletilstand, bevaegelseshaemning (akinesis, rigidity, stupor), akinesi (akinesia), afstumpning (blunted perceptibility, dullness), afstumpethed (dullness, hebetude). (various references)

Dutch		torpiditeit, stupor (stupor), matheid (dullness), domheid (dullness, mental deficiency), dofheid (apathy). (various references)

Finnish		horros (doze, drowse, lethargy, stupor). (various references)

French		torpeur (torpidity). (various references)

German		trägheit (idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertial, inertness, languidness, languishment, languor, lassitude, laziness, lethargy, phlegm, shiftlessness, sloth, sluggishness, supineness, torpidity), schlaffheit (exhaustion, flabbiness, floppiness, inertness, limpness, listlessness, looseness, slackness, softness, torpidity), phlegma (apathy, indifference, phlegm, sluggishness, stolidness, torpidity), Dumpfheit (dulledness, dullness, muffledness, mustiness, stiflingness, stuffiness, vagueness), Bewegungssperre (akinesis, articulation lock, rigidity, stupor), Betäubungszustand. (various references)

Greek		νωθρότητα (indolence, listlessness, slackness, sloth, slovenliness, sluggishness), νάρκη (mine, sopor, stupor), εμβροντησία (astonishment, stupor), απονάρκωση (stupefaction), αδράνεια (dormancy, inaction, inactivity, inertia, inertness, remissness, stupor, vegetativeness). (various references)

Hebrew		תר�"מת חורף (hibernation), ק�"ות (bluntness, dullness, numbness, sourness, stupor). (various references)

Hungarian		kábulat (daze, sopor, stupor, trip), ernyedtség (enervation, flabbiness, laxaty, laxity, limpness, slackness). (various references)

Indonesian		kebisingan (torpidity). (various references)

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

Japanese Kanji		鈍麻 , 嗜� (deep sleep). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しみ�" (citizen, deep sleep, the four social classes, the masses, townspeople), ど�"ま. (various references)

Manx		magganid (numbness), magganeys (numbness, torpidity), kyrloghid (anaesthesia, deadness, insensibility, loss of feeling, numbness, senselessness, torpidity). (various references)

Pig Latin		orportay

Portuguese		torpor (daze, lethargy, numbness, slumber). (various references)

Romanian		torpoare, toropealã (apathy, dreaming, enervation, reverie, sleepiness), prostraţie (stupor), moleşealã (flabbiness, lassitude, slackness), lâncezealã (apathy, atony, dullness, flatness, languishment, lassitude, weakness), indiferenţã (apathy, carelessness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disregard, equanimity, frigidity, indifference, insensibility, listlessness, nonchalance, phlegm, recklessness, regardlessness, remissness, sloth, unconcern), amorţealã (drowsiness, heaviness, numbness, somnolence, somnolency, stupidity, stupor, torpidity, torpidness, weakness), afion (opium). (various references)

Russian		оцепенение (catalepsy, consternation, numbness, petrifaction, rigor, stupefaction, stupor, torpidity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tromost (heaviness, indolence, laziness, listlessness, sloth, sluggishness), ukočenost (crick, numbness, stiffness, stupor, torpidity). (various references)

Spanish		torpor (akinesis, dullness, rigidity, stupor), estupor (amazement, astonishment, insensibility, sleep, stupor). (various references)

Swedish		törnrosasömn, slöhetstillstånd, letargi (lethargy). (various references)

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

Ukrainian		тупість (beetle, dullness, obtuseness, obtusity, opaqueness, oscitancy, oscitation), оніміння (torpidity), апатія (apathy). (various references)

Vietnamese		trạng thái mê mệt, trạng thái lịm đi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	stupor, stupore, stuporem, stuporis, torpor. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "torpor": torpors. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Torpor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: norepro, Starpro, tarpor, Tirfor, Toorop, Torbjorn, torper, Torpo, Torporley, torpur, torsor, tortor, tropar, tropoe, tupor, turbor, Tworkov. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "torpor" (pronounced tô"rper)
3	-r p er	Carper, Harper, sharper.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "o-o-p-r-r-t"
	-1 letter: rotor, troop.
	-2 letters: poor, port, root, roto, toro, torr, trop.
	-3 letters: oot, opt, ort, pot, pro, rot, too, top, tor.
	-4 letters: op, or, to.
	Words containing the letters "o-o-p-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: proctor, torpors, trooper.
	+2 letters: dropwort, operator, proctors, promoter, pronator, trapdoor, troopers, uprooter.
	+3 letters: arthropod, carrottop, corporate, corruptor, dropworts, operators, paratroop, posterior, potpourri, probatory, proctored, projector, promoters, pronators, propretor, proration, prorogate, prosector, protector, protestor, prothorax, protoderm, protostar, rustproof, trapdoors, turboprop, uprooters.
	+4 letters: arthropods, baroceptor, carrottops, colporteur, comparator, cooperator, copromoter, corporator, corporeity, corruption, corruptors, evaporator, intertroop, orthoptera, outperform, overreport, paratroops, percolator, perforator, peroration, personator, posteriors, potpourris, preportion, procaryote, procreator, proctorial, proctoring, procurator, prodromata, progenitor, projectors, prokaryote, prolocutor, promontory, pronatores, propagator, proportion, propraetor, propretors, proprietor, prorations, prorogated, prorogates, prosectors, prosecutor, prospector, protectors, protectory, protestors, protoderms, protostars, prototroph, protractor, protrusion, repository, resorption, rustproofs, turboprops, waterproof.
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