Dizziness
['dɪzɪnɪs] or ['dɪzənɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall.
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Definition
(n.) Giddiness; a whirling sensation in the head; vertigo.
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Examples
- I felt the steel tear into my chest, all went black before me, my head whirled in dizziness, and I felt my knees giving beneath me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Suddenly, however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The brutality of the thrust gave her the sense of dizziness that follows on a physical blow. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It made Gudrun faint with poignant dizziness, which seemed to penetrate to her heart. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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