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- noun Plural form of
dizziness .
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Examples
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I wrestle at times with intolerable irritability; social gatherings become unbearable; I have all sorts of unmanning sensations, dizzinesses, tremors; I have that dreadful sensation that my consciousness of things and people around me is slipping away from me, and that only by a strong effort can one retain one's hold upon them.
The Altar Fire Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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I say nothing of such grave signs of physical unsoundness as little pangs shooting about the heart, and little dizzinesses of the brain; these matters are too serious for this page.
The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862
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"I feel the motions of the earth as it flies around the sun and turns on itself," she said, -- "two dizzinesses in one.
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