fainting spell
Brief loss of consciousness
A fainting spell is an episode of losing consciousness, typically brief and followed by quick recovery.
The term frames fainting as a discrete incident rather than a chronic condition: She had a fainting spell at work and was sent home.
Spell here carries its sense of a period characterized by a particular state.
- blackoutComplete power loss
- out coldFully unconscious
- dizzySensation of spinning
- seeing starsDisoriented after head trauma
- collapseSudden structural failure
swoon · lightheaded · unconscious · vertigo · woozy · tunnel vision · pale · smelling salts · come to · crumple · vision · tunnel · floor · catch · weak-kneed · blood · pressure · rush
- dizzinessdizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo, wooziness, giddiness
- flare-upsflare-up, exacerbation, relapse, outbreak, episode
- mental crisesnervous breakdown, mental breakdown, mental collapse, mental break, emotional collapse
- Stage Actingdramatic pause, grand gestures, stage whisper, dramatic exit, entrances
fainting spellwakefulness
State of being conscious
alertness · lucidity · coming to · hypervigilance · wide awake
fainting spelladrenaline rush
Intense sudden excitement
second wind · energy spike · invigoration · revival · fight-or-flight response
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