obtundity

== English == === Etymology === From obtund +‎ -ity. === Noun === obtundity (usually uncountable, plural obtundities) (rare, often medicine) The state or characteristic of having dulled senses or limited awareness. 1824, Theophrastus (author), Francis Howell (translator), The Characters of Theophrastus, Josiah Taylor (London), p. 237 (Google preview): [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. === Further reading === “obtundity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.