Faintness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FAINTNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being faint
• The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
• Want of vigor or energy.
• Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.
• Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.
• a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon
• the property of being without strength
• barely audible
• the trait of lacking boldness and courage
• the quality of being dim or lacking contrast
• feeling dizzy or weak as if about to lose consciousness; lightheadedness.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lacking courage and spirit; cowardly

Words related to FAINTNESS

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Words that contain FAINTNESS

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How to use FAINTNESS in a sentence

• For he could feel the blood flowing steadily from his wound, and a deadly faintness was upon him against which he needed all his strength to fight.
• The mystery was unlocking, but the faintness was overpowering her.
• He closed his eyes as a wave of faintness swept over him, and, as he opened them again, he saw that the man was crawling towards him, and that between his teeth was a huge knife.
• Then if you feel a faintness from the medicine the ammonia will quickly restore you.
• At the break in her immobility, a faintness came over Sylvia.
• Every three or four minutes, a teaspoonful of nourishment must be given her, else she fell into faintness or convulsion.
• How long he lay in the joy of the realisation he never knew, but sleep or faintness at last overcame him.
• When Reginald came down to the harbour and saw the craft on which he had undertaken to embark he was seized with a sudden faintness.
• There had arrived at last that moment for which she had waited with an increasing faintness all that day, since the moment when Mr.
• Margaret is conscious of a vague sensation of faintness.
• During her residence there she was subject to distressing attacks of faintness in the night and early morning.
• He suggested his idea to Phoebe, though characteristically he did not refer to her attack of faintness.
• She felt she ought to walk, but before she could say so the old faintness stole over her again, and she knew that to walk was beyond her power.
• The sudden faintness which overcame her, as he spoke those words, prevented her from addressing him in return.
• She began to feel the faintness coming over her again, and with it sensations of loathing and terror that she could neither express to others nor define to herself.
• She complained of faintness and depression, and said she felt sick.
• She snatched them from him, and burst into a fit of hysterical crying, which ended in a faintness almost as of death.
• He complained of feeling liable to faintness after standing about in hot rooms.
• When intellect and imagination do not fail, heart and conscience do, with sickened faintness and convulsive protest.
• There is nothing of the faintness, lassitude, and fearful apprehensions before described.
• The Indian girl was ravenously hungry, and her faintness was as much due to her abstinence from food as from the loss of blood.
• He had not thought to bring a chair, and she, looking about with an increasing faintness and finding none, saw that she was standing by the door of a small side-room.
• Then the men of the dark and a feeling of faintness and great surprise and a broad, blue field all about him and woods in the distance, and above the growing light of dawn.
• I could only utter inarticulate sounds, and irresistible faintness came over me.
• In this whirlwind, did he feel faintness and fatigue? Did he drink, eat, sleep? If he did so, he was unconscious of the fact.
• As likely as not it is no more than a little faintness, she said.
• She felt the welcome chill of it on her burning face, and it kept her from yielding to the faintness that oppressed her.
• There is a faintness of another kind which, it is true, can always be seen by the paleness.
• This faintness of sound is found when e separates a mute from a liquid, as in rotten, or follows a mute and liquid, as in cattle.
• This theory is sustained by the experience of the survivors who were taken from the ships in the harbor, as they say that their first experience was one of faintness.
• However, he controlled himself, though only for a short season, for before a great while an excessive faintness came over him.
• As for a temporary faintness, that is by no means outside our experience.
• There was a deafening, sparkling crash, a glimmering faintness, then another crash as the horse was reined furiously back again, and then a humming stillness.

Similar words containing FAINTNES without suffix s

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