faintness
faintness noun: the property of being or feeling faint.
Noun
faintness (countable and uncountable, plural faintnesses)
- The property of being or feeling faint.
- And he first took exceptions at this badge, / Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower / Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- The confusion, in which impressions are sometimes involved, proceeds only from their faintness and unsteadiness, not from any capacity in the mind to receive any impression, which in its real existence has no particular degree nor proportion.1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Section 7
- Synonyms:
- faintheartedness, dimness
faintness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada
faintness in Tamil
- மயக்கம், தடுமாற்றம், மங்கல், மழுக்கம், தளர்ச்சி, அயர்ச்சி
faintness in Urdu
- faintness, swoon
- غش ğaš
faintness in Telugu
- faintness, stupefaction, intoxication, confusion of mind
- చొక్కు cokku, సొక్కు sokku
- faintness, apprehension
- దడ daḍa
faintness in Kannada
- ಅಸುರ್
Examples of faintness in a sentence
- The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in A Tale of Two Cities:
- The humming sound and the unvarying white light induced a sort of faintness, an empty feeling inside his head.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC...
Synonyms of faintness
Forms of faintness
| plural | faintnesses |
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Origin of faintness
From Middle English faintnesse, feintnesse, equivalent to faint + -ness.
Questions about faintness
- What does faintness mean?
- Faintness means the property of being or feeling faint.
- What is faintness in Tamil?
- Faintness in Tamil is மயக்கம், தடுமாற்றம், மங்கல். See Faintness meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use faintness in a sentence?
- The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.
- What part of speech is faintness?
- Faintness is a noun.
- What is the plural of faintness?
- The plural of faintness is faintnesses.
Words near faintness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: faintness (page history and authors); faintness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); غش (Urdu) (page history and authors); చొక్కు (Telugu) (page history and authors); faintness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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