numbednessn.
/ˈnʌmdnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈnəm(d)ˌnəs/ Now rare.
Numbness.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [noun] > state of being rendered physically insensible
stonyingc1315
dormitation1543
stifling1548
numbness1559
astonishing1563
benumbedness1566
astonishment1576
astonying1576
astoniedness1580
numbedness1600
stupidness1619
stupefiednessa1681
benumbment1817
insensibilization1897
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ix. iii. 313 Their bodies also were possessed as it were with a strange and extraordinarie nummednesse in their limmes.
1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility iv. 57 He could not rise.., by reason of the like numbedness of his thigh and foot.
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. iii. 358 If the Nerve be quite divided, the pain is little, onely a kind of Stupor or Nummednesse.
1710 W. Salmon Family Dict. (ed. 4) 99 My whole Right Side would be affected with a kind of Dead Numbedness for 24 Hours or more.
1965 D. Lodge Brit. Mus. is falling Down 7 They moved sluggishly through the first hour of the day in a state of blessed numbedness, incapable of any thought at all, pleasant or unpleasant.
1996 Toronto Star (Nexis) 22 Nov. d18 When the slight numbedness he felt in his right index finger in 1962 led..to an almost entire shutdown of that hand's circuitry, his career when with it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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