Stupor vs. Torpor — What's the Difference?

Stupor is the lack of critical mental function and a level of consciousness, in which an affected person is almost entirely unresponsive and responds only to intense stimuli such as pain. The word derives from the Latin stupor ("numbness, insensibility").

Torpor is a state of decreased physiological activity in an animal, usually by a reduced body temperature and metabolic rate. Torpor enables animals to survive periods of reduced food availability.

A state of reduced sensibility or consciousness

A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.

A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.

Lethargy; apathy.

A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.

The dormant, inactive state of a hibernating or estivating animal.

To place into a stupor; to stupefy.

A state of being inactive or stuporous.

Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

A state of apathy or lethargy.

Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.

(biology) A state similar to hibernation characterised by energy-conserving, very deep sleep.

The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally;

Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

Marginal consciousness;

Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.

A state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility;

Inactivity resulting from torpidity and lack of vigor or energy