obtundity

1. (rare, often medicine) The state or characteristic of having dulled senses or limited awareness.Examples: "[T]here are beings [who] . . . revel, with a lively zest, among all the things that are most foul and loathsome. . . . Sensuality, force of temper, inertness, obtundity of perception, personal idolatry, and the destitution of the higher and better emotions of humanity, are the ingredients of a constitution of this order."; "Clinically one sees gradually developing oedema, often a strikingly puffy face, increasing mental obtundity, the patient finally lapsing into confusion and stupor."; "The patient goes through the following stages of recovery: unconsciousness (also called paralytic coma), stupor, obtundity, lethargy, confusion (with or without delirium), near lucidity with automatism, and finally full alertness."oftenrareuncountableusually