Synonyms for fainting
faint·ing

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1. fainting

   Stupor is a condition of the body in which the action of the senses and faculties is suspended or greatly dulled — weakness or loss of sensibility. The apathy of disease is a mental affection, a state of morbid indifference; lethargy is a morbid tendency to heavy and continued sleep, from which the patient may perhaps be momentarily aroused. Coma is a deep, abnormal sleep, from which the patient can not be aroused, or is aroused only with difficulty, a state of profound insensibility, perhaps with full pulse and deep, stertorous breathing, and is due to brain-oppression. Syncope or swooning is a sudden loss of sensation and of power of motion, with suspension of pulse and of respiration, and is due to failure of heart-action, as from sudden nervous shock or intense mental emotion. Insensibility is a general term denoting loss of feeling from any cause, as from cold, intoxication, or injury. Stupor is especially profound and confirmed insensibility, properly comatose. Asphyxia is a special form of syncope resulting from partial or total suspension of respiration, as in strangulation, drowning, or inhalation of noxious gases.

   Synonyms:
   apathy, asphyxia, coma, insensibility, lethargy, stupefaction, stupor, swoon, swooning, syncope, torpor, unconsciousness

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1. faintingnoun

   Synonyms:
   swoon, syncope

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1. List of paraphrases for "fainting":

   syncope

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1. Barbara Ehrenreich:

   If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

2. Dave Palmer:

   It was a fainting issue, we don’t think it’s anything to do with the vaccine. It’s probably more environmental factors.

3. George Sithole:

   I have 45 pupils, but these days I would be lucky to have half the class, cases of children fainting in class because of hunger are very common here. It is very traumatizing.

4. Emily Dickinson:

   If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

5. Steven Lamm:

   By fainting or nearly fainting, your mind is trying to extricate yourself-as in flee-from the situation.