[f. prec. + -NESS.] The state or condition of being or feeling faintish; a slight tendency to faint.
1733. Arbuthnot, On Air, III. § vii. 48. The sensation of faintishness and debility.
1789. W. Buchan, Dom. Med. (ed. 11), 221. When a low creeping pulse, faintishness, and great lots of strength, render cordials necessary, we would recommend good wine, which may be made into negus, with an equal quantity of water, and sharpened with the juice of orange, the jelly of currants, or the life.
1816. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 575. I felt myself assailed by a kind of faintishness.
1833. M. Scott, Tom Cringle (1859), 206. While faintishness encreased so that I could hardly speak.
