breathlessness

English

Etymology

breathless +‎ -ness

Noun

breathlessness (usually uncountable, plural breathlessnesses)

1. The state of being breathless or out of breath.
2. (pathology) Difficult or labored respiration, dyspnea, shortness of breath

Translations

state of being breathless or out of breath

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸困難／呼吸困难 (zh) (hūxī kùnnán)

• Finnish: hengästyminen (fi)
• French: essoufflement (fr) m, halètement (fr) m
• Gallurese: diègnu, affasciu
• German: Atemlosigkeit f
• Italian: affanno (it)
• Japanese: 息切れ (いきぎれ, ikigire), 呼吸困難 (こきゅうこんなん, kokyū konnan)
• Portuguese: falta de ar f
• Russian: оды́шка (ru) f (odýška)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: affannu

  Logudorese: antùa, èmida

• Sassarese: pàsana, rànguru
• Serbo-Croatian: dispneja (sh), nedostatak daha, zaduha (sh)

difficult respiration — see shortness of breath

See also

• dyspnea