breathlessness Definition

breathless
adj

1. Having difficulty in breathing normally, because of illness or from hurrying, etc.

Thesaurus: exhausted, spent, panting, gasping, wheezing, winded, blown, used up.
2. Very eager or excited.

Thesaurus: agog, anxious, excited, expectant, impatient, avid, wondrous; Antonym: bored, jaded.
3. With no wind or fresh air.

Example: a breathless summer day
4. literary
Lifeless; dead.
Example: her breathless body

Derivative: breathlessly
adverb

Derivative: breathlessness
noun