The state or condition of being benumbed; loss of feeling or sensation.
Formed from 'benumb' plus the -ment suffix, which creates nouns from verbs. The -ment suffix comes from Old French and Latin '-mentum,' used to create abstract nouns describing states or results of actions.
The -ment suffix is one of English's most productive tools for turning actions into states: 'teach' becomes 'teaching,' but 'benumb' becomes 'benumbment,' showing how our language lets us transform how we talk about the same idea.
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