| \HEB-i-tood, -tyood\ |
noun
1. the state of being dull; lethargy. |
| Quotes |
But the intelligence (that more precious heirloom) was degenerate; the treasure of ancestral memory ran low; and it had required the potent, plebian crossing of a muleteer or mountain contrabandista to raise what approached hebetude in the mother into active oddity of the son.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Olalla," The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1889 |
| Origin |
| Hebetude derives from the Latin word hebes meaning "dull." It entered English in the early 1600s. |
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