feverishness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈfivəɹəʃnəs/ (US)
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Etymology
Etymology tree English feverish Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English feverishness From feverish + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being feverish.
One of the party was suffering severely from ophthalmia - he had been seized with it some days before; the pain was so great that he could get no sleep, and when my father met him he was delirious from want of rest and feverishness.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 78:
Translations (7)
ga teas (quality of being feverish) · ga teasaíocht (quality of being feverish) · fr fébrilité (quality of being feverish) · it febbrilità (quality of being feverish) · ota قیزغینلق (quality of being feverish) · ga ainteas (quality of being feverish) · ga fiabhrasacht (quality of being feverish)