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Breathlessness

Breathlessness \Breath"less*ness\, n. The state of being breathless or out of breath. [1913 Webster] ||

Wiktionary
breathlessness

n. The state of being breathless or out of breath.

WordNet
breathlessness

n. a dyspneic condition [syn: shortness of breath, SOB]

Usage examples of "breathlessness".

Maybe the headache, the breathlessness, were coming from being so cold.

Valgard walked down the hall to the foreroom doorway through a breathlessness where naught but the flames had voice.

It was locked, so he padded, in frightful borborygms and breathlessness, to the next.

He hesitated at the elevator, then made for the steps, pleased to arrive without breathlessness at their apartment door.

Cried, cried, rested, then cried some more, with her face in the crook of her elbow on the counter, listening to her breathlessness, the screen on, crying amid images of moronic grinning Dranees with daisies and Aslow Actioneers with torchers as big as small cannons, patrolling the streets in choir robes and faceless masks, and bodies in alleys, bodies in trucks, bodies stuffed into the back seats of cars, dead, alive, and Dr.