paralysis
noun
[ pəˈralɪsɪs ]
• the loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body, typically as a result of illness, poison, or injury.
• "the fast-acting venom causes paralysis, breathing difficulties, and sometimes death"
Similar:
immobility,
powerlessness,
lack of sensation,
numbness,
deadness,
incapacity,
debilitation,
paraplegia,
quadriplegia,
tetraplegia,
monoplegia,
hemiplegia,
diplegia,
paresis,
paraparesis,
palsy,
Origin:
late Old English, via Latin from Greek paralusis, from paraluesthai ‘be disabled at the side’, from para ‘beside’ + luein ‘loosen’.
