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catalepsies

catalepsies is the plural of catalepsy.

Meaning of catalepsy

Noun

catalepsy (plural catalepsies)

  1. A severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity, fixation of posture, and loss of contact with environmental conditions.
    • "But they could not have been asleep!" cried Lord John. "Dash it all, Challenger, you don't mean to believe that those folk were asleep with their staring eyes and stiff limbs and that awful death grin on their faces!" "It can only have been the condition that is called catalepsy," said Challenger.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Questions about catalepsies

What is catalepsies the plural of?
Catalepsies is the plural of catalepsy.

Words near catalepsies in the dictionary

  1. catalectic
  2. catalecticant
  3. catalecticants
  4. catalectics
  5. catalepses
  6. catalepsies
  7. catalepsis
  8. catalepsy
  9. cataleptic
  10. cataleptical
  11. cataleptically

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