lobotomy
/ləˈbɑtəmi/
noun
- A medical operation that cuts into the front part of the brain, once used to treat mental illness but now considered outdated and harmful.
- Many people who received a lobotomy lost their ability to feel emotions or make decisions.
- Lobotomy was once performed on thousands of patients with severe mental disorders.
- The history of lobotomy is a cautionary tale about medical treatments that were not fully understood.
- A figurative term for a state of being dull, unthinking, or lacking emotion, as if one's mind has been removed.
- After watching three hours of mindless TV, I felt like I'd had a lobotomy.
- The repetitive factory job gave him a kind of mental lobotomy.
- Some critics say that social media causes a cultural lobotomy, making people less thoughtful.