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faintishness en · NOUN

Etymology

From faintish + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being faintish; slight faintness.
    • […] she ran to get some cordial waters, sovereign, of course, in all cases of faintishness whatsoever. 1818, Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord: Second Series, page 156:
    • A certain Degree of Heat, not strong enough to dry or destroy animal Solids, lengthens and relaxes the Fibres; from whence proceed the Sensation of Faintishness and Debility in a hot Day; 1733, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, page 48: