faintness

noun

Etymology: From Middle English faintnesse, feintnesse, equivalent to faint + -ness.

1. The property of being or feeling faint.

   “And he first took exceptions at this badge, / Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower / Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart.”

   “The confusion, in which impressions are sometimes involved, proceeds only from their faintness and unsteadiness, not from any capacity in the mind to receive any impression, which in its real existence has no particular degree nor proportion.”