Word.ws English Dictionary

hebetation

hebetation noun: the act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

Noun

hebetation (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, figuratively) The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.
  2. (archaic, figuratively) The state of being blunted or dulled.

Origin of hebetation

Latin hebetatio: compare French hébétation.

Questions about hebetation

What does hebetation mean?
Hebetation means the act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.
What part of speech is hebetation?
Hebetation is a noun.

Words near hebetation in the dictionary

  1. hebetant
  2. hebetate
  3. hebetated
  4. hebetates
  5. hebetating
  6. hebetation
  7. hebete
  8. hebetic
  9. hebetude
  10. hebetudes
  11. hebetudinosity

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hebetation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hebetation.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hebetation. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.