torpor

Torpor is a related term of sloth.

As nouns the difference between torpor and sloth

is that torpor is being inactive or stuporous while sloth is (uncountable) laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.

As a verb sloth is

(obsolete|intransitive) to be idle.

As an adjective insipid

is insipid.

As a noun torpor is

being inactive or stuporous.

As nouns the difference between torpor and prostration

is that torpor is being inactive or stuporous while prostration is the act or condition of prostrating (lying flat) oneself, as a sign of humility.

As nouns the difference between torpor and dullness

is that torpor is being inactive or stuporous while dullness is the quality of being slow to understand things.

As nouns the difference between torpor and sleep

is that torpor is being inactive or stuporous while sleep is the state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.

As a verb sleep is

to rest in a state of reduced consciousness.

As nouns the difference between torsor and torpor

is that torsor is (mathematics) a principal homogeneous space for a group, such that the stabilizer subgroup of any point is trivial while torpor is being inactive or stuporous.

As nouns the difference between despair and torpor

is that despair is loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency while torpor is being inactive or stuporous.

As a verb despair

is (obsolete) to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.

As nouns the difference between cunctation and torpor

is that cunctation is (obsolete) delay, hesitation, procrastination while torpor is being inactive or stuporous.

As nouns the difference between torpor and inactivity

is that torpor is being inactive or stuporous while inactivity is the quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.

As a noun torpor

is being inactive or stuporous.

As an adjective dormant is

inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.