Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or quality of being giddy or foolish; levity; flightiness; heedlessness; inconstancy; unsteadiness.
- noun The state or condition of being giddy or dizzy; a swimming of the head; dizziness; vertigo.
- noun Same as
gid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being giddy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
giddy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
- noun an impulsive scatterbrained manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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As per my column, I think yesterday's action took a lot of that short term giddiness out of the market that we'd seen on Mon...
unknown title 2011
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In addition to the political, journalistic, and economic challenges that have shaped our unwillingness to acknowledge the current and future impacts of climate change on our lives, persuades Faergeman, we may also be confounded by a certain "giddiness" as we stare into the abyss of time, both past and future.
Wood Turner: Is It Time to Be Philosophical About Climate Change? Wood Turner 2010
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In addition to the political, journalistic, and economic challenges that have shaped our unwillingness to acknowledge the current and future impacts of climate change on our lives, persuades Faergeman, we may also be confounded by a certain "giddiness" as we stare into the abyss of time, both past and future.
Wood Turner: Is It Time to Be Philosophical About Climate Change? Wood Turner 2010
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ROBERT GREGORY BROWNE: There was a certain giddiness I felt the first time out that has all but disappeared.
Who’s Thrilling You Now? –The New Guns of the Thriller Genre; an Author Panel 2009
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Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with me,
As You Like It 2004
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The giddiness is amped as you get closer to the convention center because you start seeing people with backpacks and Con badges walking around everywhere.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2002
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In the Balkan peninsula giddiness is unknown, and people start you along any ledge at height cheerily and recklessly.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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I'm not sure the results are quite as bad as they look, but they're enough for me to temper my short-term giddiness ever-so slightly.
Don't Be Faked-Out by Jobs and Sales Data - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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Pray Sir lye still, 'twas I was only going to sit down, and a suddain giddiness took me in my head which made me fall and with me the Chair, there is no danger near ye Sir — I was just coming to sleep by you.
Sir Patient Fancy 1678
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Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with me,
As You Like It 1599
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