faintness

The word “faintness” has 2 syllables: faint-ness

It's pronounced as /ˈfeɪntnəs/


What is synonym and antonym for faintness?

In the thesaurus, “faintness” has 92 synonyms and 33 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for faintness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for faintness

  • Achilles heel
  • appetite
  • asthenia
  • blemish
  • breakdown
  • burnout
  • chink in armor
  • collapse
  • damage
  • debilitation
  • debility
  • decay
  • decrepitude
  • defenselessness
  • deficiency
  • delicacy
  • disablement
  • disease
  • dullness
  • dysequilibrium
  • effeteness
  • enervation
  • enfeeblement
  • ennui
  • exhaustion
  • failing
  • fatigation
  • fatigue
  • fault
  • feebleness
  • flaw
  • foible
  • fondness
  • fragility
  • frailness
  • frailty
  • gap
  • giddiness
  • harm
  • heaviness
  • helplessness
  • hurt
  • impairment
  • imperfection
  • impotence
  • impuissance
  • incapacitation
  • inclination
  • inconstancy
  • indecision
  • infirmity
  • injury
  • instability
  • invalidism
  • invalidity
  • irresolution
  • lack
  • languidness
  • languor
  • lapse
  • lassitude
  • lethargy
  • lightheadedness
  • liking
  • listlessness
  • lowness
  • malaise
  • overtiredness
  • passion
  • penchant
  • powerlessness
  • predilection
  • proclivity
  • prostration
  • senility
  • shortcoming
  • sickliness
  • soft spot
  • softness
  • sore point
  • taste
  • tenderness
  • unhealthiness
  • unsteadiness
  • vertigo
  • vice
  • vitiation
  • vulnerability
  • weakness
  • weariness
  • wimpiness
  • wooziness

Antonyms for faintness

  • ability
  • advantage
  • brawniness
  • capability
  • energy
  • fitness
  • freshness
  • good health
  • hardihood
  • hardiness
  • hardness
  • health
  • healthiness
  • heftiness
  • huskiness
  • liveliness
  • lustiness
  • muscularity
  • perfection
  • robustness
  • ruggedness
  • soundness
  • spirit
  • stoutness
  • strength
  • strong point
  • sturdiness
  • success
  • toughness
  • vigor
  • virility
  • vitality
  • wellness

Example Sentences

  • The hiker struggled to continue on the trail, overwhelmed by the faintness in his limbs.
  • As she woke up from the anesthesia, she felt a lingering faintness in her head.
  • The faintness of the starlight made it difficult to navigate through the dense forest.
  • His voice wavered with faintness as he recounted the harrowing experience.
  • The doctor attributed her dizziness to the faintness caused by dehydration.

On this page you'll find 125 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to faintness, such as: Achilles heel, ability, advantage, appetite, asthenia, blemish, brawniness.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

umbra

  • adumbration
  • apparition
  • black
  • blackness
  • blackout
  • body
  • bogey
  • brownout
  • candlelight
  • character
  • cloudiness
  • coolness
  • cover
  • creature
  • dark
  • darkness
  • dimness
  • dimout
  • dullness
  • dulness
  • dusk
  • duskiness
  • eidolon
  • faintness
  • fogginess
  • ghost
  • gloaming
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • grayness
  • half-light
  • haunt
  • haziness
  • human being
  • individual
  • living soul
  • man
  • manes
  • midnight
  • mistiness
  • mortal
  • murk
  • murkiness
  • night
  • obscuration
  • obscurity
  • paleness
  • penumbra
  • person
  • personage
  • phantasm
  • phantom
  • poltergeist
  • protection
  • revenant
  • screen
  • semidarkness
  • shade
  • shadiness
  • shadow
  • shadows
  • shelter
  • somberness
  • soul
  • specter
  • spirit
  • spook
  • supernatural being
  • twilight
  • umbrage
  • vision
  • woman
  • wraith

dark

  • Cimmerian
  • Delphian
  • Delphic
  • abstruse
  • ambiguous
  • anagogic
  • analphabetic
  • aphotic
  • arcane
  • artless
  • atramentous
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • baffling
  • banned
  • barred
  • base
  • beclouded
  • bedimmed
  • befogged
  • benighted
  • bewildering
  • black
  • blackish
  • blackness
  • blackout
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blue
  • brainless
  • brownout
  • brunet
  • brunette
  • cabalistic
  • caliginous
  • callow
  • candlelight
  • censurable
  • cheerless
  • chill
  • cimmerian
  • circuitous
  • clandestine
  • cloaked
  • close
  • closemouthed
  • clouded
  • cloudiness
  • cloudy
  • cold
  • colorless
  • comfortless
  • complex
  • complicated
  • concealed
  • concealment
  • condemned
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contemptible
  • corrupt
  • covert
  • crepuscular
  • cruel
  • cryptic
  • cursed
  • curst
  • cussed
  • damnable
  • darkened
  • darkening
  • darkish
  • darkling
  • darkness
  • darksome
  • dead of night
  • debased
  • debauched
  • deep
  • defiling
  • degenerate
  • dejected
  • denseness
  • depraved
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • desperate
  • despicable
  • despondent
  • difficult
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • dimness
  • dimout
  • dingy
  • dire
  • dirty
  • disallowed
  • discomfiting
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • discreet
  • disguised
  • disheartening
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • doleful
  • double-edged
  • dour
  • down
  • drab
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • droopy
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dullness
  • dulness
  • dumb
  • dun
  • dusk
  • dusky
  • eerie
  • eery
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • elliptic
  • elliptical
  • enigmatic
  • enigmatical
  • equivocal
  • errant
  • erring
  • esoteric
  • evening
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • execrable
  • faint
  • faintness
  • fallen
  • fogginess
  • foggy
  • foolish
  • forbidden
  • forbidding
  • foreboding
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • frowning
  • fuliginous
  • functionally illiterate
  • funereal
  • furtive
  • fuzzy
  • gloaming
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • gloomy
  • glowering
  • glum
  • godforsaken
  • gray
  • grayness
  • green
  • grey
  • grim
  • half-light
  • hangdog
  • haziness
  • hazy
  • hellish
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • hugger-mugger
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignoble
  • ignorant
  • ill
  • ill-lighted
  • illegal
  • illiterate
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoral
  • impalpable
  • impenetrable
  • improper
  • inappreciable
  • incomprehensible
  • inconsolable
  • incorrect
  • indecent
  • indecipherable
  • indecorous
  • indefinite
  • indirect
  • indistinct
  • indistinguishable
  • inexact
  • inexperienced
  • inexplicable
  • inexplicit
  • infamous
  • infernal
  • iniquitous
  • inky
  • innocent
  • innumerate
  • inscrutability
  • inscrutable
  • intangible
  • interdicted
  • intricate
  • invisible
  • joyless
  • knotty
  • lackluster
  • lamentable
  • leaden
  • libertine
  • lightless
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • loose
  • louring
  • loury
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-minded
  • lowbrow
  • lowering
  • lowery
  • lugubrious
  • lurid
  • masked
  • mean
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • midnight
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • mistiness
  • misty
  • moonless
  • morbid
  • moronic
  • morose
  • mournful
  • muddy
  • murk
  • murkiness
  • murky
  • mysterious
  • mystic
  • mystical
  • mystifying
  • naive
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nebulous
  • nefarious
  • negative
  • night
  • nightfall
  • nighttime
  • noncommittal
  • nonliterate
  • not known
  • noxious
  • obfuscatory
  • obfuscous
  • objectionable
  • obnubilated
  • obscene
  • obscurant
  • obscurantic
  • obscure
  • obscured
  • obscurity
  • obtuse
  • occult
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • opaque
  • oppressive
  • outlawed
  • overcast
  • pale
  • paleness
  • pernicious
  • perplexing
  • perverted
  • pessimistic
  • pestilential
  • philistine
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • plaintive
  • plutonian
  • prohibited
  • proscribed
  • prudent
  • puzzling
  • questionable
  • quiet
  • raw
  • rayless
  • recondite
  • reprehensible
  • reprobate
  • reserved
  • reticent
  • rotten
  • roundabout
  • rude
  • sad
  • saturnine
  • scowling
  • scrofulous
  • seclusion
  • secrecy
  • secret
  • secretive
  • semidarkness
  • semiliterate
  • senseless
  • sepulchral
  • shade
  • shaded
  • shadiness
  • shadowlike
  • shadows
  • shadowy
  • shady
  • shrouded
  • sick
  • silent
  • silly
  • simple
  • sinful
  • sinister
  • smoggy
  • sneak
  • sneaky
  • snide
  • solemn
  • somber
  • somberness
  • sombre
  • sooty
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • soupy
  • sphinxlike
  • starless
  • stealthy
  • stupid
  • stygian
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • surreptitious
  • swart
  • swarthy
  • taciturn
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • thickness
  • threatening
  • tight-lipped
  • tight-mouthed
  • twilight
  • twilit
  • ugly
  • umbra
  • umbrage
  • unanswerable
  • unauthorized
  • unbecoming
  • uncanny
  • uncertain
  • unclean
  • unclear
  • uncommunicative
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undefined
  • undercover
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • undetermined
  • uneducated
  • unenlightened
  • unethical
  • unfathomable
  • ungodly
  • unhappy
  • unhealthy
  • uninstructed
  • unknowable
  • unknowledgeable
  • unlawful
  • unlearned
  • unlettered
  • unlighted
  • unlit
  • unprincipled
  • unpropitious
  • unread
  • unrighteous
  • unsavory
  • unschooled
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unskilled
  • unsophisticated
  • untaught
  • untrained
  • untutored
  • unwholesome
  • upsetting
  • vague
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vulgar
  • weird
  • wicked
  • witching hour
  • witless
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • wretched
  • wrong

darkness

half-light

  • afterglow
  • afterlight
  • aurora
  • black
  • blackness
  • blackout
  • break of day
  • brownout
  • candlelight
  • cloudiness
  • cocklight
  • crack of dawn
  • crepuscular light
  • dark
  • darkness
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • dawnlight
  • day-peep
  • daylight
  • decline
  • dimness
  • dimout
  • dullness
  • dulness
  • dusk
  • early evening
  • ebb
  • end
  • evening
  • eventide
  • faintness
  • first flush of morning
  • fogginess
  • gloaming
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • glow
  • grayness
  • haziness
  • last phase
  • late afternoon
  • midnight
  • mistiness
  • morning
  • murk
  • murkiness
  • night
  • nightfall
  • paleness
  • peep of day
  • semidarkness
  • shade
  • shadiness
  • shadows
  • somberness
  • sundown
  • sunrise
  • sunset
  • sunup
  • twilight
  • umbra
  • umbrage

obliqueness

  • abruptness
  • abstruseness
  • abstrusity
  • ambiguity
  • ambiguousness
  • artifice
  • bank
  • bend
  • bevel
  • bias
  • cant
  • circuitousness
  • circuity
  • circumvention
  • cloudiness
  • come-off
  • complexity
  • complication
  • cop-out
  • cunning
  • darkness
  • declination
  • declivity
  • deepness
  • deflection
  • depth
  • descent
  • deviation
  • diagonal
  • difficulty
  • dimness
  • ditch
  • dodge
  • dodging
  • downgrade
  • elusion
  • equivocalness
  • equivocating
  • equivocation
  • eschewal
  • evading
  • evasiveness
  • excuse
  • faintness
  • fancy footwork
  • fogginess
  • fudging
  • fugiviteness
  • fugivity
  • fuzziness
  • gradient
  • haziness
  • hill
  • impenetrability
  • inclination
  • incline
  • incomprehensibility
  • incomprehensibleness
  • indefiniteness
  • indirectness
  • indistinctness
  • inscrutability
  • inscrutableness
  • jive
  • lean
  • leaning
  • lie
  • mistiness
  • murkiness
  • mysteriousness
  • mystery
  • nebulosity
  • nebulousness
  • obliquity
  • obscurity
  • obtuseness
  • opacity
  • opaqueness
  • pitch
  • pretext
  • prevarication
  • profoundness
  • quibble
  • ramp
  • reconditeness
  • rise
  • rising ground
  • routine
  • runaround
  • ruse
  • shade
  • shadow
  • shelf
  • shift
  • shirking
  • shuffling
  • shunning
  • skew
  • sophism
  • sophistry
  • stall
  • steepness
  • stonewall
  • subterfuge
  • swag
  • sway
  • tip
  • trick
  • trickery
  • uncertainty
  • vagueness

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