Pronounced: BEH-nuh-suhn, noun
Notes: I’ve never run across this word, but I hope to remember it and use it on occasion
Yesterday’s word
The word torpid means
- sluggish or inactive
- apathetic
- dormant as when hibernating
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
Once again, I am familiar with the first definition, but the second and third are not ones that I would have been able to come up with. Our word comes from the Latin word torpidus (numb), which comes from torpere (to be stiff or numb).
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