as in weakness
the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor
after a year of increasing faintness, the old man quietly died in his sleep
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Recent Examples of faintness
The challenge, of course, is their faintness.
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Adam Frank, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
The faintness lasted only a minute.
—Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for faintness
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The strengths and weaknesses are always shown in a game like this.—
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According to the Mayo Clinic, CMS is caused by a gene change that results in muscle weakness, which worsens with physical activity.—
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There are no speakers in the songs of MJ Lenderman other than MJ Lenderman, whose diffidence and exhaustion are in all-too-perfect lockstep with the psychic frustrations of his listeners.—
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This round of protests feels different from prior ones because of a sense of frustration and exhaustion among people in Iran, said Dina Esfandiary, Middle East lead for Bloomberg Economics.—
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But Vanderbilt, as attention, pressure and fatigue rise on a pursuit no one outside its camp expected, is essentially two teams with two games left in the 2025 regular season.—
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Despite widespread fatigue over tipping prompts, Americans still tend to be generous when dining out at restaurants.—
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In Will There Ever Be Another You, the main character struggles with an illness similar to long COVID, descending into a state of debility and psychosis as readers experience the chaos of her unraveling life.—
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The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.—
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“Faintness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faintness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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