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# faintness

«faintness» in Mova's school dictionary: **a weak, dizzy feeling as if you might faint (pass out)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (faintness; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Faintness is a weak, dizzy feeling as if you might faint (pass out). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faintness/#m1)

2) Faintness is also the quality of being faint: hard to see, hear or smell because it is very weak, like the faintness of a star or a sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faintness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In health and safety lessons, faintness can come from heat, not eating, standing still too long or the sight of blood; first aid says sit or lie down and raise the legs. In science, faintness describes dim light or quiet sounds. In stories, it shows a character is weak or shocked. Phrases: «a feeling of faintness», «the faintness of the light».

### examples

- After running in the heat, she felt a wave of faintness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faintness/#x1)
- Tell an adult if you have faintness or dizziness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faintness/#x2)
- The faintness of the star made it hard to see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faintness/#x3)
- Because of the faintness of the writing, we could barely read the letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faintness/#x4)
- Faintness can come from skipping breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faintness/#x5)
- He sat down when faintness came over him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faintness/#x6)
- But as soon as she stepped into the cold water, a sudden faintness seized her; she clutched at the air convulsively with her hand, took one step forward, and fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faintness/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. From «faint» (adjective: weak, pale; verb: to pass out). Do not confuse with «feint» (a pretend move in sport or fencing) or «faint-hearted» (not brave).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «faintness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/faintness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.