obtundity

plural obtundities

1. oftenrareuncountableusuallymedicineThe state or characteristic of having dulled senses or limited awareness.

   Collins English Dictionary defines obtundity as the state of "having the senses numbed or less sharp."

   2024 January 17, Andrew Barton, “'Obtundity' signs bewilder York residents and visitors”, in BBC News

   3 more 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.

   1824, Theophrastus (author), Francis Howell (translator), The Characters of Theophrastus, Josiah Taylor (London), p. 237 (Google preview)

   Clinically one sees gradually developing oedema, often a strikingly puffy face, increasing mental obtundity, the patient finally lapsing into confusion and stupor.

   1975, George Martin Yuill, The Treatment of Renal Failure, →ISBN, page 24

   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.

   2014, David J. Magee, Orthopedic Physical Assessment, →ISBN, page 104