torpidity in English

noun

[tor·pid·i·ty || tɔr'pɪdətɪ /tɔː-]

slowness, listlessness, sluggishness, apathy, lethargy

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1. While bats of the temperate zone enter deep torpidity during cold, tropical bats show an “alarm reaction”.

2. These compounds are useful antipsychotic agents efficacious against not only positive symptoms centering on the hallucination, delusion and the like peculiar to the acute stage of schizophrenia, but also negative symptoms such as emotional torpidity, abulia and autism.

3. receptors rather than D¿2? receptors, these compounds are useful as antipsychotic agents efficacious not only against positive symptoms typified by hallucination and delusion characteristic to the acute stage of schizophrenia but also negative symptoms such as emotional torpidity, abulia and autism.