faintness
noun
faintness is a noun meaning “The property of being or feeling faint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-I-N-T-N-E-S-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of faintness is faintnesses.
What does faintness mean?
noun
- 1
The property of being or feeling faint.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce faintness?
Faintness has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-faintness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of faintness
- faintnesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is faintness?
Faintness appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Faintness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense property of being faint:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Schwäche, Mattigkeit, Mattheit, Verblasstheit |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does faintness come from?
From Middle English faintnesse, feintnesse, equivalent to faint + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).