faintness

[ UK /fˈe‍ɪntnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈfeɪntnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. barely audible
  2. a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon
  3. the property of being without strength
    the faintness or potency of the feeling
  4. the trait of lacking boldness and courage
    faintness of heart and infirmity of purpose
  5. the quality of being dim or lacking contrast
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How To Use faintness In A Sentence

  • ` ` This craven, '' he thought, ` ` will lose the day in pure faintness and cowardice of heart, which he calls tender conscience. The Talisman
  • Alternatively, dizziness may be used to describe a swaying sensation, or a feeling of weakness, faintness, light-headedness or unsteadiness.
  • Vomiting and faintness were reported among those who tried to work without masks when cleaning up the beaches.
  • Now that bulimy is not hunger but a faintness, is manifest from all laboring beasts, which are seized with it very often through the smell of dry figs and apples; for a smell does not cause any want of food, but rather a pain and agitation in the stomach. Essays and Miscellanies
  • His hands and feet were bound with iron: but his head, owing to faintness from the wounds he had received at Lumloch, was so bent down on his breast as he reclined on the boat, that I could not then see his face. The Scottish Chiefs
  • He suffers from lethargy, faintness and major weight loss.
  • Maybe it was the fuzziness of the peak at Vishnu Temple or the faintness of the cliffs at Hopi Point.
  • The hijacker gradually freed 10 passengers after stopping, including a man suffering from faintness who police initially said had escaped.
  • the faintness or potency of the feeling
  • The side effects include nausea and faintness.
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