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• n  a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility
  he fell into a deep torpor
• n  inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy

• Let us shake off the inertia for rigidity and torpor can easily be mistaken for solidity and permanence.
• Economies are naturally cyclical and therefore it is unlikely that the year end will bring an end to the current torpor.
• It is hard to distinguish one country from the other when it comes to bureaucratic torpor.

• torpidity
• listlessness
• torpidness

News & Articles

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• When the Ruins Were New
  Colin Thubron In February 1862 the eldest son of Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales and future King Edward VII, embarked on a four-and-a-half month journey through the Middle East. Among the party was the photographer Francis Bedford, who in over 190 prints produced one of the earliest photographic records of the region. The torpor of the declining Ottoman empire is palpable in his rare group ...
  July 6, 2013 - New York Review of Books

Quotes

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• Charles Schumer in AFP
  Hopefully Bear's problems will wake this administration out of its torpor. If they fail to act to deal with the bullseye of this crisis, which is housing, the likelihood of more Bears is too great,Schumer said in a statement.
• Manmohan Singh in Hindustan Times
  Mr Singh stated that Naxals present "the single biggest security challenge to the Indian State'. He is right. The question is whether the torpor that affects the Indian State and the ad-hoc nature in which it fights the Maoists will finally be...
• Wayne Hemingway in guardian.co.uk
  It's brave of the local authority to invest in something like this to lift the seaside out of its torpor,said Hemingway, who has bought one of the pods. "I love the British seaside, and projects like this can make it great again. It's...