Other forms: stupors
A stupor is a dazed state in which you can barely respond. A drunken stupor, fall into a stupor, lie in a stupor.
In medicine it is a defined level of consciousness between drowsiness and coma, where only strong stimulation gets a response. In ordinary speech it is nearly always the drunken kind.
1nounstuporA dazed state in which you can barely respond.
“The heat left us in a stupor, unable to do more than lie in the shade.”
stupor is a state.
Latin stupor means numbness or dullness, from stupere, to be stunned.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)tewp-
Latin
stupor — insensibility, numbness, dullness
English, today
stupor
Late Middle English -, borrowed from Latin stupor (“insensibility, numbness, dullness”). Distantly related (from Proto-Indo-European, via Proto-Germanic) to stint, stub, and steep.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA