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The brain's way of buffering when reality asks too much of it at once.
means A state of being dazed and almost senseless, where your mind moves slowly and nothing fully registers.
from From Latin stupor, meaning numbness or astonishment, rooted in the verb stupere, 'to be stunned or benumbed.' The same root gave English 'stupid' and 'stupendous' — one word for a mind struck dull, the other for whatever hit it hard enough to do the stunning.
- etymology
- from latin stupere, to be stunned
- not sleep
- consciousness stays on, just unanswers the door
- causes
- alcohol, shock, fever, or bad news
- medical use
- a step above coma on the responsiveness scale