different between catatonic vs cataleptic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæ.t??t?n.?k/

  Rhymes: -?n?k

Adjective

catatonic (comparative more catatonic, superlative most catatonic)

1. (medicine) Of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia.
   • 1967, unnamed doctor in 1967, Frederick Wiseman (director), Titicut Follies (documentary film), quoted in 2004, Jerrold R. Brandell (editor), Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients, page 118:

     However, he was looking a lot more catatonic and depressed before and sometimes we find that on the anti-depressants you remove the depression and uncover the paranoid stuff and we may have to give him larger quantities of tranquilizers just to tone this down.
2. (informal) Motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.

Translations

Noun

catatonic (plural catatonics)

1. (medicine) A patient in a state of catatonia.
   • 1953, Canadian Journal of Psychology: Revue Canadienne de Psychologie, Volume 7, page 120,

     An inspection of Table IV shows that the catatonics have the lowest mean reversal score of all the groups.

   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, unnumbered page,

     I thought of children released from school; I thought of spring-awakenings after winter-sleeps; I thought of the Sleeping Beauty; and I also thought, with some foreboding, of catatonics, suddenly frenzied.

Anagrams

• toccatina

English

Adjective

cataleptic (comparative more cataleptic, superlative most cataleptic)

1. Pertaining to, or affected by, catalepsy.

Noun

cataleptic (plural cataleptics)

1. A person experiencing catalepsy.

Translations

Anagrams

• catapeltic

Romanian

Etymology

From French cataleptique, from Latin catalepticus.

Adjective

cataleptic m or n (feminine singular cataleptic?, masculine plural cataleptici, feminine and neuter plural cataleptice)

1. cataleptic

Declension