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torpidity|tɔːˈpɪdɪtɪ|
[f. prec. + -ity.]
The condition or quality of being torpid; torpor, sluggishness, numbness.
1614Purchas Pilgrimage vii. xi. (ed. 2) 710 You see one Retrograde..vnto a stonie torpiditie they obserued in the same plant. 1772Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXII. 298 As the swallows were found in the winter, they must have been in a state of torpidity. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxx. 388 A torpidity of the kidneys supervened. 1887A. Birrell C. Brontë ix. 100 In a world of torpidities any rapid moving thing is hailed somewhat extravagantly. |