Definition of Faintishness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Faintishness

fainted
fainter
fainters
faintest
fainteth
fainthearted
faintheartedly
faintheartedness
faintheartednesses
faintier
faintiest
fainting
faintingly
faintings
faintish
faintishness (current term)
faintishnesses
faintly
faintness
faintnesses
faints
fainty
fair(a)
fair-and-square
fair-built
fair-haired
fair-haired(a)
fair-haired boy
fair-maids-of-France

Literary usage of Faintishness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1844)
"Cough began to be rather troublesome, and he complained of great debility and faintishness. The expectoration was viscid, tough mucus at first; ..."

2. The Chronic Diseases, Their Specific Nature and Their Homeopathic Treatment by Samuel Hahnemann, Charles J Hempel (1846)
"The faintishness is especially felt, when walking, less when sitting, in this case only in ... faintishness after having taken a short walk in the open air. ..."

3. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1829)
"... there was grest faintishness on any attempt to assume the erect posture. ... faintishness if raised to the erei.t position, a feeling of want of air, ..."

4. On megrim, sick-headache and some allied disorders by Edward Liveing (1873)
"Sick- headache/ sickness, faintishness, vertigo, sickness the effect of disgust, are not dissimilar from minor epilepsy—the petit mal of French writers. ..."

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