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What is another word for swoons?

Pronunciation: [swˈuːnz] (IPA)

Swoons are a type of fainting or loss of consciousness that is often caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure. Synonyms for this condition may include fainting, passing out, blacking out, collapsing, or losing consciousness. Other similar terms could include lightheadedness, dizziness, vertigo, or feeling dizzy. Swooning can also be used to describe a feeling of intense emotion or attraction, such as a swooning sensation upon seeing a romantic partner. In this context, synonyms may include falling head over heels, being smitten, or having a crush. Overall, there are many different words that can be used to describe the experience of swooning, both in terms of physical and emotional sensations.
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  • Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
    Walter Savage Landor
  • Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
    Walter Savage Landor
  • 'Beautifully written . . . the webs of imagery that Harris has so carefully woven . . . contains writing of which our best writers would be proud . . . there is not a singly ugly or dead sentence . . .' - or so sang the critics. is a genre novel, and all genre novels contain dead sentences - unless you feel the throb of life in such periods as 'Tommaso put the lid back on the cooler' or 'Eric Pickford answered' or 'Pazzi worked like a man possessed' or 'Margot laughed in spite of herself' or 'Bob Sneed broke the silence.' What these commentators must be thinking of, I suppose, are the bits when Harris goes all blubbery and portentous (every other phrase a spare tyre), or when, with a fugitive poeticism, he swoons us to a dying fall: 'Starling looked for a moment through the wall, past the wall, out to forever and composed herself...' 'It seemed forever ago...' 'He looked deep, deep into her eyes...' 'His dark eyes held her whole...' Needless to say, Harris has become a serial murderer of English sentences, and is a necropolis of prose.
    Martin Amis

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