MEANING
A feeling of being short of breath or unable to breathe comfortably.
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Words that belong together
- sudden breathlessness
- breathlessness after exertion
- a spell of breathlessness
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The climb left her with a few minutes of breathlessness.
His breathlessness made it difficult to finish the sentence.
The nurse asked whether the breathlessness had begun before the fright.
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- breathlessness
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Usage notes
Primary category: fear. Forms: Mass noun; no ordinary plural needed. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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