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fluishness en · NOUN

Etymology

From fluish + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being fluish.
    • There isn't much I can do about the sensations of dizziness, weakness, or even a little fluishness that occur after a long day without my meds. 2017 October 6, “I Still Hate Self-Love: Advice from So Sad Today”, in VICE:
    • The day after I'd finished the screenplay, I felt fluish and heavy in the legs. The fluishness and heavy-leggedness increased. 1988, D. M. Thomas, Memories and Hallucinations, page 183:
    • It took her a while, but the more she thought about it, the more she realised that the symptoms she felt – the awful flu-ishness, the persistent dull headache and the heavy aching in her breasts – weren't heroin-related. She was pregnant. 2016, Ilana Fox, The Glittering Art of Falling Apart: