Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)The state of being breathless or out of breath, especially merely temporarily from exertion.

    Climbing eight flights of stairs while the elevator is out of service can easily produce some breathlessness in people whose physical fitness is otherwise not noticeably impaired.

    Atemlosigkeit

    оды́шкаodýška

  2. (uncountable, usually)Difficult or labored breathing, as a symptom or sign of a medical condition.

    Since he'd entered the urgent care center, his breathlessness had only gotten worse, even though he'd been sitting quietly.

More definitions
  • a dyspneic condition

Translations

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Forms

plural: breathlessnesses
Singularbreathlessness

uncountable

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

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