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Stupefaction

noun

(Written also stupifaction)

A feeling of stupefied astonishment.

Marginal consciousness. Synonyms: grogginess, semiconsciousness, stupor. "Someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor"

The action of stupefying; making dull or lethargic.

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"Stupefaction" Quotes from Famous Books

... gave rise to a feeling of stupefaction. The two women stopped yelling, but were still scarlet in the face and trembling with rage. Jean Louis, who ...

— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc

... general stupefaction when Fagerolles assured them that the great landscape painter, now seventy years of age, lived somewhere in the neighbourhood of Montmartre, in a little house among his fowls, ducks, and dogs. So one might outlive one's own glory! ...

— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola

... course of the Protestant, who permits private judgment in spite of its inevitable inconveniences. Both are more reasonable than Mr. Gladstone, who would have private judgment without its inevitable inconveniences. The Romanist produces repose by means of stupefaction. The Protestant encourages activity, though he knows that where there is much activity there will be some aberration. Mr. Gladstone wishes for the unity of the fifteenth century with the active and searching spirit of the sixteenth. ...

— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson

... by drinking only while in the shop, where he could draw water from the faucet. The cell guards' intelligence had been too limited to make them inquire of the brush shop guards about his habits. Also, Gabriel, had feigned stupefaction while in the cell. Thus he had simulated the effects of the drug, and had really thrown his tormentors off the track. For months and months they were convinced that they were weakening his will and destroying his mentality, while as a matter of fact his reasoning powers and determination ...

— The Air Trust • George Allan England

... out with myself," he repeated. But hours passed, and the moon had risen, and he still lay there, plucking up the heather and flinging it aside in a stupefaction of misery. It was only when the September darkness stole over the moor that he recollected himself and ...

— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey

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