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Stupefaction

noun
(Written also stupifaction)
1.
A feeling of stupefied astonishment.
2.
Marginal consciousness.  Synonyms: grogginess, semiconsciousness, stupor.  "Someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor"
3.
The action of stupefying; making dull or lethargic.





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"Stupefaction" Quotes from Famous Books



... place that formed a background to our movements asserted itself. It became apparent that the source of much, at least, of the tumult of sounds which had filled our ears ever since we had recovered from the stupefaction of the fungus was a vast mass of machinery in active movement, whose flying and whirling parts were visible indistinctly over the heads and between the bodies of the Selenites who walked about us. And not only ...
— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells
... spoke nor moved. Stupefaction, surprise, and a very obvious regard for Jimmie Dale's revolver mingled themselves in a helpless expression on ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... eh?" Now by Roddy's expression it was plain that, if Madame Omber's name wasn't strange in his hearing, at least he found this news about her most surprising. He was frankly staring, with a slackened jaw and with stupefaction in his blank ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance
... Raynal, after the first stupefaction, pressed hard and even angrily for an immediate assault on the whole Prussian line. Not they. It was on paper that the assault should be at daybreak to-morrow. Such leaders as ...
— White Lies • Charles Reade
... of stupefaction, raising the rifle] Youll testify before the coroner that it's an accident, Viv. [He takes aim at the retreating figure of Crofts. Vivie seizes the muzzle and pulls it round ...
— Mrs. Warren's Profession • George Bernard Shaw


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