Hypertext Webster Gateway: "faintness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Faintness \Faint"ness\, n.
1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of
consciousness, and self-control.

2. Want of vigor or energy. --Spenser.

3. Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness;
as, faintness of description.

4. Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.

I will send a faintness into their hearts. --Lev.
xxvi. 36.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

faintness
n 1: barely audible
2: the quality of being dim [syn: {dimness}]

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