breathlessness

English

Etymology

From breathless +‎ -ness.

Noun

breathlessness (usually uncountable, plural breathlessnesses)

1. The state of being breathless or out of breath.
   • 1980 December 13, Michael Bronski, “A Longing For Passion To Transcend Thought”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12:

     Dickinson's longer lines and use of ampersands ^{[Bronski means dashes]} creates a breathlessness that evokes sexual excitement, an urgency that precludes, or at least, overshadows thought.

2. (pathology) Difficult or labored respiration, dyspnea, shortness of breath

Translations

state of being breathless or out of breath

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸困難／呼吸困难 (zh) (hūxī kùnnán)

• Finnish: hengästyminen (fi)
• French: essoufflement (fr) m, halètement (fr) m
• Gallurese: diègnu, affasciu
• German: Atemlosigkeit f
• Italian: affanno (it)
• Japanese: 息切れ (ja) (いきぎれ, ikigire), 呼吸困難 (ja) (こきゅうこんなん, kokyū konnan)
• Portuguese: falta de ar f
• Russian: оды́шка (ru) f (odýška)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: affannu

  Logudorese: antùa, èmida

• Sassarese: pàsana, rànguru
• Serbo-Croatian: dispneja (sh), nedostatak daha, zaduha (sh)

difficult respiration — see shortness of breath

See also

• dyspnea