obnubilation

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Late Latin obnūbilātiō. Compare brain fog as a similar metaphor. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɒbnjuːbɪˈleɪʃən/, [ɒbnjuːbɪˈleɪʃn̩] === Noun === obnubilation (countable and uncountable, plural obnubilations) The action of darkening or fact of being darkened, as with a cloud; obscuration. [1610] 1610, John Healey (tr.), St. Auguſtine, of the Citie of God: with the learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives, bk 3, ch. 15, pp. 127–8, note e: 1951, Abraham Moses Klein (aut.), E.A. Popham and Z. Pollock (eds.), The Second Scroll (2000), gloss dalid (ר), p. 95: (medicine) Obscuration or clouding of the mind or faculties. [1753] 1753 Dec. 17th, John Rutty, A Spiritual Diary and Soliloquies in The Life of Samuel Johnſon, LL.D. (1791), aut. James Boswell, vol. II, “1777. Ætat. 68.”, p. 155: 1803, Thomas Beddoes, Hygëia III, essay ix, p. 198: 1888 May, G.S. Hall (ed.), The American Journal of Psychology I, № 3, “Ueber die therapeutische Verwendung der Hypnose by Richard Schulz” (review), p. 519: 1892, H. Power and L.W. Sedgwick, The New Sydenham Society’s Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences IV, s.v. “Obnubilaʹtion”: 1960 Jun. 27th–29th, Henri Fischgold and Betty A. Schwartz, “A clinical, electroencephalographic and polygraphic study of sleep in the human adult” in the Ciba Foundation Symposium on “The Nature of Sleep”, eds. G.E.W. Wolstenholme and M. O’Connor, p. 235: 1997 Jul., Juan F. Masa et al., “Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation and Not Oxygen May Prevent Overt Ventilatory Failure in Patients With Chest Wall Diseases” in Chest CXII, № 1, Abstract, p. 207: (rare, literally) A veiling with or concealment in clouds. [1814] 1814 Jan. 15th, “Foggiana” in The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1814 (1815), p. 23: Something that obscures or causes confoundment; an obfuscation. [1999] 1999, Balachandra Rajan, Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay, Afterword, p. 206: ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “OBNUBILAʹTION” in Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language (1st edition, 1828) “Obnubilation” in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st edition), volume VII (O, P; 1909), § i (O, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray), page 25/3 “obnubilation, n.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd edition, March 2004) == French == === Etymology === Inherited from the Middle French obnubilation. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɔb.ny.bi.la.sjɔ̃/ === Noun === obnubilation f (plural obnubilations) (medicine, obsolete) perception of objects as if seen through a cloud, dazzlement, obnubilation [1858] (medicine) a disorder of consciousness characterised by slowed and obscured thought, obnubilation [1926] (in the etymological sense) the state of being covered with clouds or fog, obnubilation [1936] ==== Synonyms ==== (perception of objects as if seen through a cloud, dazzlement, obnubilation): vertige m === Further reading === “obnubilation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Late Latin obnūbilātiō. === Noun === obnubilation f (plural obnubilations) clouding of the mind, obscuration of the mental faculties, obnubilation [1486] ==== Descendants ==== French: obnubilation