[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or condition of being feverish; an instance of the same. lit. and fig.
1662. R. Mathew, Unl. Alch., § 76, 97. It is to their great benefit, in taking off from them windiness, also feverishness, or those other distempers they take them for.
1709. Ld. Shaftesbury, Charact. (1711), II. 129. Satiety … and Feverishness of Desire, attend those who passionately study Pleasure.
1764. Eliz. Carter, Let., Jan. (1890), III. 237. Lord Lyttelton has a slight feverishness.
1860–1. Flo. Nightingale, Nursing, 55. Feverishness is generally supposed to be a symptom of fever—in nine cases out of ten it is a symptom of bedding.
