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How to pronounce giddiness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms silliness
Type of frivolity, frivolousness
Has types lightness, lightsomeness
Derivation giddy
Type Words
Synonyms dizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo
Type of symptom
Derivation giddy

Examples of giddiness

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We couldn't blame the heights for the giddiness we soon began to feel, however.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Do you have to separate that giddiness from a businesslike approach to the games?
From the freep.com
Other scientists, despite themselves, gave way to a similar measured giddiness.
From the time.com
The smudging has turned some of the giddiness of iPad ownership to disappointment.
From the online.wsj.com
Some sit out, but the enthusiasm and giddiness is something most girls enjoy.
From the ocregister.com
Yet the absolute giddiness over the Lakers'start was borderline embarrassing.
From the dailynews.com
The giddiness over his return has made the thought of losing Harvin easier to take.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Nashville may not sober up from the Monday Night giddiness for several days.
From the al.com
At the same time, I find that giddiness or irreverence may cause alarm in strangers.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • An impulsive scatterbrained manner
  • Dizziness: a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
  • (giddy) dizzy: having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"
  • (giddy) airheaded: lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"
  • Dizziness refers to an impairment in spatial perception and stability. It is considered imprecise. It can be used to mean vertigo, presyncope, disequilibrium, or for a non-specific feeling such as giddiness or foolishness.
  • (Giddy (album)) Giddy is a compilation album by Irish band Pugwash, featuring tracks from their four studio albums. It was released by Ape Records on September 29, 2009.
  • (Giddy (geometry)) In geometry, the great dodecicosahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U63. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.
  • The state of being giddy
  • (giddy) In his existential psychoanalysis of Baudelaire, Sartre wrongfully accuses that great idler of "bending over his own freedom and becoming giddy at the sight of the bottomless abyss. ...