鈍麻

• (Tokyo) どんま (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

鈍(どん)麻(ま) • (donma) ^{←どんま (donma)?}

1. becoming numb, becoming less sensitive

鈍(どん)麻(ま)する • (donma suru) ^{←どんま (donma)?}intransitive suru (stem 鈍(どん)麻(ま)し (donma shi), past 鈍(どん)麻(ま)した (donma shita))

1. to become numb, to become less sensitive
   • 1918, 和辻哲郎, 『偶像再興』序言‎, 青空文庫:

     陳腐(ちんぷ)なるものは生命(せいめい)を持(も)たないとする固定観念(こていがいねん)に捉(とら)われたものは、まずその鈍麻(どんま)した感覚(かんかく)をゆり起(お)こして自(みずか)らの殻(から)を悟(さと)るがいい。

     Chinpu naru mono wa seimei o motanai to suru kotei gainen ni torawareta mono wa, mazu sono donma shita kankaku o yuriokoshite mizukara no kara o satoru ga ii.

     Those who have been prepossessed with the fixed notion that banal things do not have life, first shake your numbed senses awake and notice your own shell.

   • 1946, 神西清, 灰色の眼の女‎, 青空文庫:

     この特有(とくいう)の温気(うんき)のなかでタイピストたちは、機銃(きじゆう)のやうにはじき出(だ)される騒音(さうおん)に聴覚(ちやうかく)をすつかり鈍麻(どんま)させ、眼(め)ばかり神経質(しんけいしつ)に光(ひか)らせながら、あるひは萎(な)えしをれ、あるひは却(かへ)つて毒々(どくどく)しく照(て)り映(は)えて、ひしめき揺(ゆ)らいでゐるのだつた。

     Kono tokuyū no unki no naka de taipisuto-tachi wa, kijū no yō ni hajikidasareru sōon ni chōkaku o sukkari donma sase, me bakari shinkeishitsu ni hikarasenagara, arui wa naeshiore, arui wa kaette dokudokushiku terihaete, hishimeki-yuraide iru no datta.

     In this distinctive damp heat, the typists completely numbed their sense of hearing to the noise that shot out as from a machine gun and kept only their eyes neurotically sharp as they jostled and swayed, sometimes withering and, conversely, sometimes shining poisonously.