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headiness

headiness

1 8.3
A strong, exciting feeling that makes you dizzy or thrilled
  • noun
  • /ˈhɛdiness/
: embriaguez
  • She loved the headiness of this feeling, the sense of anonymity that allowed her to be wide-eyed and forgetful of her life and predicaments.

I think that's a great place to just start to understand that there's a different reality beyond this headiness, pushing, stressing myself out, overworking myself.

Examples

  • The rapid changes Taiwan has gone through and the headiness of newfound freedoms have created a society in a great deal of flux.

  • I felt the good ache of sore muscles honorably earned and a headiness from a job accomplished.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • I like that it get into the headiness of what would happen if just one little thing turned.

    Back in Time (2015)

  • Tobacco fans had fits, and for the first time in my life, I knew the headiness of glory.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • It was raining harder now, and Lily's headiness.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I love the headiness of Conley and the fact that he fits the mold of a true NBA PG.

    Blog text (32)

  • The rapid changes Taiwan has gone through and the headiness of newfound freedoms have created a society in a great deal of flux.

    Academic text (1993)

  • I think that's a great place to just start to understand that there's a different reality beyond this headiness, pushing, stressing myself out, overworking myself.

    Rich Roll

  • I remember that time visiting the town in Clarendon Parish where Daddy was born and raised, learning in the midst of all that headiness and excitement that Jamaica National Railways does not use electric trains.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • In the end, the book encapsulates well the headiness and sensuality of a love affair.

Synonyms

giddiness
vsheadiness
2 4.6

A feeling of dizziness and light-headedness sometimes with excitement

is focused on strong exhilaration that overwhelms without physical light-headedness

Antonyms

tedium
9 6.8

Feeling bored from doing the same thing for a long time

dullness
2 3.4

A feeling of low emotion and little interest

How Intoxicating

intoxication
3 6.2
headiness
1 8.3
excitement
417 1.0
stimulation
28 4.1

Surface Forms

headiness singular
headinesses plural

Morphology

headiness = heady (transparent) = heady + ness

Formed by adding the productive nominalizing suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'heady', so the meaning is directly the state or quality of being heady.

Etymology

Headiness comes from heady, which comes from head meaning 'top of the body'. A heady thing feels like it hits you in the head and makes you feel light, dizzy, or very excited, so headiness is the quality of being exciting or overwhelming.