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
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
Noun
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If the Nasdaq 100 sees further weakness ahead of megacap technology companies’ earnings, the QQQ could rapidly slide to about 580, according to Jay Woods, chief market strategist at Freedom Capital Markets.—
Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2026
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In theory, that weakness could be an opening for a president to muscle Congress into codifying parts of his agenda.—
Yuval Levin,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026
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Continual self-sacrifice increases the risk of emotional exhaustion, resentment and loss of self-clarity.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Understanding trees as living archives of human breath exhaled in joy, sorrow, elation or exhaustion is deeply meaningful for me.—
Beronda L. Montgomery,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
Noun
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That fatigue shows up in churn.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Sometimes the quickest cure to outfit fatigue is simply adding a bright hue into the mix—below are 15 to consider.—
Fred Sahai,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
26 Sep. 2025
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The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.—
Jenny Noyce,
JSTOR Daily,
28 June 2024
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“Faintness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faintness. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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