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UK
/fˈeɪntnəs/
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[ US /ˈfeɪntnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈfeɪntnəs/ ]
NOUN
- barely audible
- a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon
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the property of being without strength
the faintness or potency of the feeling -
the trait of lacking boldness and courage
faintness of heart and infirmity of purpose - the quality of being dim or lacking contrast
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.