fainthood

noun

Etymology

From faint + -hood.

  1. derived from *dʰeyǵʰ-
  2. derived from fingo
  3. derived from faint
  4. inherited from faynt
  5. suffixed as fainthood — “faint + hood

Definitions

  1. The condition, quality, or state of being faint

    The condition, quality, or state of being faint; faintness.

    • I felt myself turn blue then green then white, but before I succumbed to the growing onslaught of fainthood, I crawled (no joke, literally tugging at the carpet strands for leverage) back to my bed and awakened my pregnant wife.
    • Ethereal fainthood runs its flippant mileage per incarnation, whether unflowered or not. Sand feathers broth against the foolish lees. Daintily the weather assumes a much colder view.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fainthood. 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