(1) There is a partial insensibility of the skin, and so great a hebetude of the intellectual faculties, as to be like a person half asleep, that is with difficulty aroused and kept awake.(2) So you think you are saving yourselves from madness, but you are falling into mediocrity, into hebetude .(3) As the professor droned on and on in the overheated lecture hall, Kim was overcome with such hebetude that she had to fight to keep her eyes open.(4) after convalescence I would probably fall back into hebetude(5) The inept mayor's re-election would depend entirely on the hebetude of the townspeople, he thought.(6) It had only been twenty minutes into the lesson when Jenny soon found herself being pulled into an inescapable state of hebetude .
