Faintness
['feintnis]
Definition
(noun.) barely audible.
(noun.) the property of being without strength; 'the faintness or potency of the feeling'.
(noun.) a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon.
Typist: Oliver--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
(n.) Want of vigor or energy.
(n.) Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.
(n.) Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.
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Examples
- But what did you hear about her second attack of faintness yesterday evening? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But it will be very dreadful, with this feeling of hunger, faintness, chill, and this sense of desolation--this total prostration of hope. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Faint, my Lady murmurs with white lips, only that; but it is like the faintness of death. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am overpowered with faintness and fatigue, else I had many, many more arguments to urge. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A dread and faintness fell upon me, and I called to Charley. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Just before supper-time, however, Anne Catherick startled them all by being suddenly seized with faintness. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When the first faintness consequent on having moved about had left him, he subsided into his former state. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I felt a thrill while I answered him; but no coldness, and no faintness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It had been a mere passing faintness, a momentary sensation, not worth a thought; yet it was felt there was a difference in Shirley. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My mortal fear and faintness must have made me deadly pale. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I was troubled: a mist came over my eyes, and I felt a faintness seize me; but I was quickly restored by the cold gale of the mountains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It was attempted to introduce it commercially, but it failed on account of its faintness and the extraneous sounds which came in on its wires from various causes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Vlad