breathlessness
nounEtymology
From breathless + -ness.
Definitions
The state of being breathless or out of breath, especially merely temporarily from…
The state of being breathless or out of breath, especially merely temporarily from exertion.
- Climbing eight flights of stairs while the elevator is out of service can easily produce some breathlessness in people whose physical fitness is otherwise not noticeably impaired.
- Dickinson's longer lines and use of ampersands ^([Bronski means dashes]) creates a breathlessness that evokes sexual excitement, an urgency that precludes, or at least, overshadows thought.
Difficult or labored breathing, as a symptom or sign of a medical condition.
- Since he'd entered the urgent care center, his breathlessness had only gotten worse, even though he'd been sitting quietly.
The neighborhood
- neighbordyspnea
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for breathlessness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA