FAINTNESS
\fˈe͡ɪntnəs], \fˈeɪntnəs], \f_ˈeɪ_n_t_n_ə_s]\
Definitions of FAINTNESS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
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Want of vigor or energy.
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Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.
By Oddity Software
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The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.
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Want of vigor or energy.
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Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Loss of strength, colour, and respiration, as in a fit; —languor; inactivity; —imperfection, as of light or representation;—mental weakness.
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Languour, feebleness, want of strength; inactivity, want of vigour, timorousness, dejection.
By Thomas Sheridan
