faintness
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈfeɪntnəs/
:
debilidad
- In the early morning, the faintness of the sunrise hinted at the promise of a beautiful day.
Examples
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A quivering faintness, a revulsion beyond nausea, opens in him.
Fiction book (1992) -
Presently, though, he too went white, not white in faintness but in anger.
Fiction book (1996) -
In fact, it's only about 4th magnitude, which is getting down to a level of faintness that will require a dark sky to see.
Blog text (1) -
But to accept the task? To agree to evincing the traces of a gay genealogy in a text whose even partial success in the culture's terms would almost guarantee (as with the accent of an ambitious provincial) the faintness of those traces?
Academic text (1992) -
She read our collaboration aloud as if it were composed of air flowing across her overbite, as if a whisper recreated its faintness on the bricks.
Fiction book (2001) -
The faintness of the light made it hard to read the book without straining her eyes.
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He noticed the faintness of the sound coming from the old radio, barely audible in the quiet room.
Synonyms
5
2.5
A gentle light or view with blurred edges
4
3.4
Low light that makes it hard to see
2
4.5
A lack of clear detail in what you see or in a picture
2
5.8
A blurry picture or idea hard to see and understand
1
4.2
Lack of strong, detailed ideas or proof in a text
1
9.5
A state of being very hard to notice
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2.2
A surface that is not bright or shiny
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5.2
A lack of strength in an argument or evidence
A low level of light, like at sunset
A soft, less bright quality in light or sound
Lack of clear detail that makes things hard to see or hear
Lack of clear detail that makes pictures or thoughts hard to understand
Darkness or low light that makes things hard to see
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Etymology
The word faintness comes from the adjective faint meaning 'weak' or 'dim' and the noun ending -ness, so it names the state of being barely strong or clear, like a very soft sound or light.