cataleptic
Statue-like medical state
Cataleptic describes a state of rigid immobility and unresponsiveness, as in catalepsy—a condition where the body freezes in position, sometimes for hours.
The term appears in medical contexts for certain seizure disorders and psychiatric conditions, but also figuratively for anyone frozen in shock or trance: She stood cataleptic, unable to process what she'd just heard.
As a noun, a cataleptic is someone experiencing such a state.
Psychiatric movement disorder
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
- stuporSuspended sensibility
mutism · negativism · echolalia · waxy flexibility · posturing · antipsychotic · neuroleptic · dopamine
Lacking all movement
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- rigidUnable to bend
- stiffNot easily bent
- stock-stillEntirely without motion
unmoving · fixed · rooted · paralyzed · immovable · waxy · postural · suspended
Unaware, without feeling
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- stuporousIn a near-unconscious state
- comatoseDeeply unconscious, unrousable
- unawareLacking knowledge of something
inert · torpid · lethargic · passive · nonreactive · vegetative · akinetic · mute
Inducing trance or slumber
- mesmerizedHeld in rapt attention
- entrancedFilled with wonder
- dissociativeCharacterized by mental detachment
- somnambulisticPertaining to nocturnal wandering
stuporous · unresponsive · trancelike · spellbound · transfixed · fugue · absorbed · dreamlike
catatonia
Psychiatric movement disorder
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
stupor · mutism · negativism · echolalia · waxy flexibility · posturing · antipsychotic · neuroleptic · dopamine · psychiatry
motionless
Lacking all movement
stock-still · unmoving · fixed · rooted · paralyzed · immovable · waxy · postural · suspended · locked
insensible
Unaware, without feeling
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- stuporousIn a near-unconscious state
- comatoseDeeply unconscious, unrousable
unaware · inert · torpid · lethargic · passive · nonreactive · vegetative · akinetic · mute · withdrawn
hypnotic
Inducing trance or slumber
- mesmerizedHeld in rapt attention
- entrancedFilled with wonder
- dissociativeCharacterized by mental detachment
somnambulistic · stuporous · unresponsive · trancelike · spellbound · transfixed · fugue · absorbed · dreamlike · automatism