different between dyspnoea vs breathlessness

English

Etymology

dys- +? -pnoea, from Latin dyspnoea, from Ancient Greek ???????? (dúspnoia, “bad breathing”), compound of ???- (dus-, “bad, unfortunate”) and ???? (pno?, “breeze”).

Pronunciation

See full workup of the variants at Wikipedia > Shortness of breath > Collation of -pnea transcriptions.

Noun

dyspnoea (countable and uncountable, plural dyspnoeas)

1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of dyspnea

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (dúspnoia)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dysp?noe?.a/, [d??s?p?noe?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /disp?ne.a/, [d?isp?n???]

Noun

dyspnoea f (genitive dyspnoeae); first declension

1. dyspnea (difficulty breathing)

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• dyspnoea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dyspnoea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

breathless +? -ness

Noun

breathlessness (usually uncountable, plural breathlessnesses)

1. The state of being breathless or out of breath.
2. (pathology) Difficult or labored respiration, dyspnea, shortness of breath

Translations

See also

• dyspnea