Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TOR'POR, n. [L.]

1. Numbness; inactivity; loss of motion, or of the power of motion. Torpor may amount to a told loss of sensation, or complete insensibility. It may however be applied to the state of a living body which has not lost all power of feeling and motion.
2. Dullness; laziness; sluggishness; stupidity.