[f. prec. + -ITY.] The condition or quality of being torpid; torpor, sluggishness, numbness.
1614. Purchas, Pilgrimage, VII. xi. (ed. 2), 710. You see one Retrograde … vnto a stonie torpiditie they obserued in the same plant.
1772. Barrington in Phil. Trans., LXII. 298. As the swallows were found in the winter, they must have been in a state of torpidity.
1843. R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xxx. 388. A torpidity of the kidneys supervened.
1887. A. Birrell, C. Brontë, ix. 100. In a world of torpidities any rapid moving thing is hailed somewhat extravagantly.
