feverishness

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English

Etymology

From feverish +‎ -ness.

Noun

feverishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being feverish.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 78:
      One of the party was suffering severely from ophthalmia - he had been seized with it some days before; the pain was so great that he could get no sleep, and when my father met him he was delirious from want of rest and feverishness.

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