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#113375 10/10/03 04:14 PM
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Hebe was Greek goddess of youth, and something else I now forget. Hebephrenia is an obsolete psychiatric term for a form of schizophrenia characterized by inappropriate silly childishness. So I thought "hebetude" ought to be a synonym for childiness, but dictionary just says "dullness", which doesn't make much sense to me.


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hebetudinous...lethargic...

Hebetudinous carries some of the weight of lethargy.


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Dear Faldage: I was mixing Greek and Latin again.Shame on me.


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Hebe was also one of the cupbearers to the gods.

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