faintness

Other forms of faintness

plural

faintnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about faintness

What does faintness mean?

faintness means "a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in faintness?

faintness has 2 syllables: faint-ness. The stress falls on "faint". In IPA it is /ˈfeɪntnəs/.

What is another word for faintness?

Close synonyms include faintheartedness, dimness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is faintness a common word?

faintness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.