torpidity

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Noun
  • People experiencing more severe infections may also suffer high fever, aches, headaches, lethargy, rashes and blood in their urine.
    Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Common signs can include fever, lethargy, loss of appetite, enlarged lymph nodes and spleen, pale gums (resulting from poor circulation), and sometimes vomiting or diarrhea.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Research with species such as the ground squirrel shows tau hyperphosphorylation occurs in the brain in torpor during hibernation and then reverses when the animals wake up.
    Robert Martone, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Rip wakes from his torpor not just on any day, but on an election day, which allows Irving to magnify his hero’s disorientation.
    John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Europe’s lassitude is heightened by internal divisions.
    HENRY FARRELL, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • As something of a companion piece to More, Jacques Deray’s summer thriller La Piscine is a far more dramatic and insidious tale of tropical desire, lassitude, and violence.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • All the drills have been full court, running to our spots with speed and pushing through that tiredness and fatigue.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Edmilson hopes Kairat can hit Alonso’s side on the break and make the most of any tiredness from Saturday’s 5-2 derby defeat by Atletico Madrid and their eight-hour trip to Kazakhstan.
    Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Torpidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torpidity. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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