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faintness
noun as in debility
noun as in dizziness
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in fatigue
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in weakness
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in weak point
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- Achilles heel
- appetite
- blemish
- chink in armor
- debility
- decrepitude
- delicacy
- enervation
- failing
- fault
- feebleness
- foible
- fondness
- frailty
- gap
- impairment
- impotence
- inclination
- inconstancy
- indecision
- infirmity
- instability
- invalidity
- irresolution
- lack
- languor
- lapse
- liking
- passion
- penchant
- powerlessness
- predilection
- proclivity
- prostration
- senility
- sore point
- taste
- vice
- vitiation
Example Sentences
Pregnant women experienced sleeplessness, racing hearts, and faintness, and described their bodies as “boiling” or “on fire.”
“This would boost the morale of the Uyghur movement after a long period of faintness and tiredness,” he said.
But “if clear cardiac symptoms develop when returning to running, such as chest pain, excessive shortness of breath, lightheadedness or faintness,” people should get evaluated, Strange said.
Although his fever initially subsided, it later returned and Rush's pupil "bled me again….The next day, the fever left me, but in so weak a state that I awoke two successive nights with a faintness which threatened the extinction of my life."
Tosti’s “Ideale” was particularly striking, its finale building from faintness to climax.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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