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(noun) a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility / (noun) a state of lowered physiological activity typically characterized by reduced metabolism, heart rate, respiration, and body temperature that occurs in varying degrees especially in hibernating and estivating animals / (noun) apathy dullness

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torpor



in the torpor of the boarding school

—p.119 by Annie Ernaux
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4 years, 1 month ago


I had spent the years before in a generalised torpor. At home, this had been understood and made legible as a depression

—p.12 Reproducing Paul (9) by Granta
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2 years, 6 months ago

I lived in a sweet state of torpor devoid of any thought of past or future

—p.38 Hôtel Casanova (35) by Annie Ernaux
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2 years, 6 months ago


hated tourists, Sundays, torpor

—p.73 by Rachel Kushner
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6 years, 8 months ago


trading the torpor of life for the efficiency of living

—p.21 The Chatroom Society (19) missing author
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6 years, 11 months ago