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breathlessness

breathlessness

2 4.6
Difficulty breathing that makes you feel you cannot get enough air
  • noun
  • /ˈbrɛθləsnəs/
translation icon : falta de aliento
  • After climbing the stairs quickly, she felt a sudden wave of breathlessness that made her stop for a moment.
  • breathlessness and cough
  • chest pain and breathlessness
  • breathlessness and palpitations

Emotion is creating a sense of breathlessness, maybe tight chestedness, mental anxiety.

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Examples

  • Doctors see a lot of tuberculosis, cough, wheezing, and breathlessness, and there is a lot of misdiagnosis.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Inspiratory Muscle Training has been used to decrease the severity of breathlessness and improve exercise tolerance in patients with COPD.

    Academic text (2007)
  • But the most common cause of breathlessness is excessive work of breathing.

  • You have asked him about chest pain and breathlessness, diet and exercise, and have weighed him, taken his blood pressure.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Jed explains that, as well as the cough and breathlessness, he has felt more tired and run down lately.

    Academic text (2012)
  • During that time, Jodie would suffer from increasing breathlessness and perhaps a respiratory infection.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Patients were sometimes prescribed oxygen as a result of presenting with breathlessness, rather than as a treatment for confirmed hypoxia.

    Academic text (2011)
  • At the second appointment, he reports less breathlessness, less use of his salbutamol, and more stamina on the golf course.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Persistent productive cough, gradual worsening of breathlessness on exertion over the last few months.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The patient reported experiencing breathlessness while walking up a gentle slope.

Synonyms

shortness of breath
vsbreathlessness
  • Specialized
22 4.0

A feeling of not getting enough air

is the single-word form used for the same feeling
SOB
vsbreathlessness
  • Specialized
3 6.3

Difficulty breathing or feeling you cannot get enough air

is the full written form rather than an abbreviation
dyspnea
vsbreathlessness
  • Specialized
3 9.8

Difficulty breathing that makes you feel short of breath

is the everyday nontechnical word used for that breathing problem
windedness
vsbreathlessness
1 6.3

Feeling out of breath after exercise

is broader and covers difficulty breathing from any cause not only exertion
anhelation
vsbreathlessness
  • Specialized
9.9

A breathless, gasping sound in someone's voice or breathing

refers to the general condition of struggling to breathe rather than the sound

Antonyms

eupnea
  • Specialized
9.9

Breathing that is normal and easy when someone is resting

How Breathless

suffocation
20 5.2
breathlessness
2 4.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

breathlessness = breathless (transparent) = breath + less + ness

Standard noun formation from the adjective 'breathless' using the productive suffix '-ness' to denote the state or quality.

Etymology

The word breathlessness comes from three simple parts: breath meaning 'the air you take into your lungs', -less meaning 'without', and -ness meaning 'a state'. So breathlessness means 'a state of being without breath', which is why we use it for shortness of breath or trouble breathing after activity.