noun
A deficiency in mental and physical alertness and activity: dullness, hebetude, languidness, languor, lassitude, leadenness, lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, stupor, torpidity. See action/inaction.
dullness, apathy; lethargy
http://www.answers.com/Torpor
n.
Stupor
coma, dormancy, latency, inactivity; see stupor.
Apathy
dullness, sluggishness, apathy, inanition; see indifference 1, laziness.
Usage Examples:
Converse of object
enter: Even during the summer, bats can enter torpor during cool spells.
induce: But it had been a long day, and the meal was inducing a pleasant torpor.
Adjective modifier
mental: The seminal essence pervades the channels of the body, and so there comes mental torpor like thickening darkness.
spiritual: And so it is in the case of spiritual torpor.
general: Beyond that, the year was decidedly spasmodic, with islands of excessively intense activity rising out of the general miasmic torpor.
intellectual: This gave me great cheer in those evil years of enforced idleness and intellectual torpor which my health imposed upon me.
deep: As Newcastle stirred from its economic slumber with piecemeal regeneration, Gateshead sank into an even deeper torpor.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/torporTwo synonyms and antonyms and a sentence for the word Torpor?
syn: lethargy, slugishness.
ant: lively, active
The bear was in a state of torpor during dormant season in the winter.
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