Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAINT'NESS, n.

1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, color and respiration.
2. Feebleness; languor; want of strength. Hooker.
3. Inactivity; want of vigor. Spenser.
4. Feebleness, as of color or light.
5. Feebleness of representation; as, faintness of description.
6. Feebleness of mind; timorousness; dejection; irresolution. I will send a faintness into their hearts. Lev. xxvi.