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giddiness|ˈgɪdɪnɪs|
[f. giddy a. + -ness.]
1. The condition of being giddy or dizzy, vertigo or swimming in the head, dizziness.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. viii. (1495) 228 Gedynes is false dome..for by that dome it semeth that al thyng gooth abowte. 1562Turner Baths, Names Siknesses A iij a, The dusenes or gydenes in the heade. 1592tr. Junius on Rev. xvii. 4 Bringing upon them a deadly giddiness. 1655Culpepper, etc. Riverius i. Pref., Giddiness, or swimming of the Head, called Vertigo. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Bristol 10 Mar., They..turn round with an amazing swiftness..without..shewing the least appearance of giddiness. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 176 The sudden motion of his head in any direction occasioned no giddiness. 1870Dickens E. Drood ii, A dimness and giddiness crept over him. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe xiii. (1894) 331 Upon this ridge..one can hardly stand without giddiness.
b. Bewildering rapidity of flight.
1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 5 The pleasure she gives the eye, is by the giddiness of her flying.
2. Thoughtless folly, flightiness; fickleness, instability.
a1290Signs of Doomsday 112 in Cod. Digby 86 (Stengel) We hit [i.e. heaven] forloren þoru sottes dede, Þoru gidinesse and þoru misdede. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 20 Although they be vexed with extreme madnesse, yet I think they are not caried with such giddinesse. 1625Bacon Ess., Truth (Arb.) 499 Certainly there be, that delight in Giddinesse; And count it a Bondage, to fix a Beleefe. 1756Burke Vind. Nat. Soc. 57 Their Giddiness might make the People condemn where they meant to acquit. 1801Southey Thalaba ix. xvi, The Tyrant..Seeks in the giddiness of boisterous sport Short respite from the avenging power within. 1863W. Phillips Speeches ii. 32 A few mere giddiness hurries to ruin.
b. A foolish or flighty action, etc.
1593Donne Sat. i. 51 Thou..doest repent Theese vanityes and giddinesses. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities ii. xii, The mincing vanities and giddinesses of empty-headed girls. |