All 3 Uses
stupor
in
Brave New World
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- He was as though suddenly and joyfully awakened from a dark annihilating stupor.†
p. 59.2 *stupor = a state in which there is little ability to think
- The liftman slammed the gates, touched a button and instantly dropped back into the droning twilight of the well, the twilight of his own habitual stupor.†
p. 59.6
- From this stupor he was aroused to a more immediate sense of reality by the impact on his cheek of a well-aimed packet of chewing-gum.†
p. 255.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(stupor) a state in which there is little ability to think -- as from being very sleepy, drunk, or stunned
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)