Giddiness

Definitions: Giddiness

Giddiness

Noun

1. An impulsive scatterbrained manner.

2. A reeling sensation; feeling about to fall.

Date "giddiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Giddiness

Synonyms: dizziness (n), lightheadedness (n), silliness (n), vertigo (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Imbecility Folly	Folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry; giddiness; (inattention); eccentricity; extravagance; (absurdity); rashness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Giddiness

Specialty definitions using "giddiness": WALTHERIA INDICA. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Giddiness & Vestibulo-Spinal Investigations Combined Audio-Vestibular Investigations Experimental Neurootology (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		AVM damage to these parts of the hindbrain can result in dizziness, giddiness, vomiting, a loss of the ability to coordinate complex movements such as walking, uncontrollable muscle tremors, or disruptions in organ function (for example, heart failure). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Giddiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Giddiness" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	19	80,337

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Language		Translations for "giddiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mendjelehtësi (airiness, frivolity, levity, lightness), marramendje (dizziness, reel, swimming, vertigo). (various references)

Arabic		‏دوار (daze, dizziness, revolutionary, revolving, rolling, rotary, rotating, rotational, rotative, rotatory, sturdy, swim, swimming, swinging, turn, vertigo, voluble). (various references)

Bulgarian		виене на свят (dizziness), замайване (dizziness, spin, swim, vertigo), лекомислие (frivolity, levity, lightness, superficiality). (various references)

Finnish		pyörrytys (dizziness, vertigo), pyörryttää (dizziness, vertigo), huimaus (dizziness, vertigo). (various references)

French		vertige, étourderie. (various references)

German		schwindel (bogus, con, con trick, confidence game, dizziness, dodge, fake, fakes, fraud, fraud in mortgage dealings, goldbrick, imposture, lie, quackery, skin game, swindle, vertigo), Leichtsinn (carelessness, flippancy, foolishness, frivolousness, improvidence, levity, rashness, recklessness, thoughtlessness). (various references)

Greek		σκοτοδίνη (blackout, haze), παραζάλη (bewilderment, confusion, tumult), ζάλη (confusion, dizziness, lightheadedness, swim, tizzy, vertigo, whirl), ήλιγγοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		סחרור (spin), סחרחורת (dizziness, stagger, swirl, vertigo). (various references)

Hungarian		szédülés (dizziness, swim, vertigo), könnyelműség (folly, frivolity, improvidence, lightheadedness, trifling), hebehurgyaság. (various references)

Indonesian		perasaan pusing. (various references)

Italian		vertigini (dizziness on standing up suddenly, vertigo), vertigine (dizziness, vertigo), incostanza (changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy), capogiro (dizziness, swindle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		眩暈 (dizziness), 立ち眩 , 目眩 (dizziness), くつくつ法師 (approximately, around, bending loosely back and forth, brood over, dizziness, Kutsukutsu-boushi semi, like a small spinning object, making something, meandering, mope, repetitively, round, tediously, to bend loosely back and forth, type of cicada, worry about, wriggling body). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たちくらみ, くらくら (dizziness), めまい (dizziness). (various references)

Manx		thollaneys (dizziness, headiness, stupefaction, stupor, vertigo), eddrymid (flightiness, levity, lightness, shallowness, slightness). (various references)

Pig Latin		iddinessgay

Portuguese		vertigem (dizziness, dizzy, maziness, qualm, stagger, swim, vertigo), tontura (dizziness, mazurka, qualm, stagger, swim, vertigo), irrefletidamente (unadvisedly), frivolidade (falderal, fribble, frivolity, futility, idleness, levity, light hearted, lightness, non essential, trifle, trifling), entontecimento. (various references)

Romanian		vârtej (backwash, bent, bustle, Eddy, gulf, gyration, rotation, swirl, twirl, vortex, whirl, wind spout), uluialã (amazement, astonishment), nestatornicie (fickleness, flightiness, instability, levity, ticklishness), frivolitate (flightiness, flippancy, frailty, frivolity, frivolousness, levity, thoughtlessness, wantonness), ameţealã (dizziness, intoxication, vertigo). (various references)

Russian		головокружение (dizziness, swimming, vertigo, wooziness). (various references)

Scottish		diùdan. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrtoglavica (dizziness, vertigo), prevrtljivost. (various references)

Spanish		mareo (airsickness, dizziness, qualm, sea sickness, seasickness, sickness), color rojo (red, red heat, redness). (various references)

Swedish		yrsel (delirium, dilirium, dizziness, vertigo), svindel (dizziness, do, humbug, humbuggery, ramp, swindle). (various references)

Turkish		sersemlik (daze, dizziness, dullness, fuddle, muddle, silliness, stupidity, stupor), sersemleme (dizziness, stagger, stupefaction, stupor), hoppalık (airiness, escapade, flightiness, frivolity, hoity toity, levity, looseness, perkiness), hafiflik (airiness, frailness, lightness, looseness, slightness, slowness, thinness), bir baltaya sap olamama, baş dönmesi (dizziness, swim, swimming of the head, vertigo, whirl). (various references)

Ukranian		запоморочення голови, легковажність (airiness, carelessness, frivolity, hoity toity, levity, lightness, puerility). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự lảo đảo (stagger, vaccilation), sự choáng váng (dizziness, faintness), sự chóng mặt (dizziness, scotodinia). (various references)

Welsh		syfrdandod (stupor), penysgafnder (dizziness), pensyfrdandod (dizziness), pendro (staggers, vertigo), penddaredd, madrondod (stupefaction), dot (dot, vertigo). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vertiginis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "giddiness": giddinesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Giddiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: goddness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "giddiness" (pronounced 'Gid"di*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-i-i-n-s-s"
	-2 letters: designs, dingies, dissing, giddies, insides, seising, sidings.
	-3 letters: deigns, design, didies, dieing, diesis, dinged, dinges, dissed, gneiss, indies, inside, niseis, seisin, siding, signed, singed, singes.
	-4 letters: deign, didie, dined, dines, dinge, dings, genii, indie, issei, nided, nides, nisei, segni, sends, sengi, sided, sides, signs, sines, singe, sings, sneds, snide.
	-5 letters: deni, dens, died, dies.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-g-i-i-n-s-s"
	+2 letters: giddinesses, undisguised.
	+3 letters: misdiagnosed.
	+4 letters: distinguished, misaddressing, misguidedness, undisguisedly.
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