feverishness

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Expectant/wannabe moms in particular may want to wait until they’re in the full thick of the “suck, swaddle and swing” before diving into this extreme take on a relatable feverishness.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023

But his story had none of the feverishness of the previous night.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2020

There was a feverishness to the way women were telling them — as if it had just occurred to them how lonely they’d felt.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018

It’s an exercise in feverishness and fretfulness, in urgency and appetite, a sweet and simpleminded leave-taking of the senses in the pursuit of, well, a lot.

From Time • Feb. 6, 2014

The attack often comes on with general feverishness, a hot skin, fretfulness, and restlessness, which subside when the skin begins to discharge, though the discomfort produced by the local irritation still continues.

From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by West, Charles