Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TOR'PID-NESS, or TOR'PI-TUDE
TOR'PID-NESS, or TOR'PI-TUDE, n.
- The state of being torpid; numbness. Torpidness may amount to total insensibility or loss of sensation.
- Dullness; inactivity; sluggishness; stupidity.
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