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Noun: feverishness  fee-vu-rish-nus
  1. A rise in body temperature; often a symptom of infection
    "The child's feverishness prompted the parents to seek medical attention";
    - fever, febrility, febricity, pyrexia
     
  2. A state of wildly excited activity or emotion
    "That amid the turmoil of the time and the feverishness of our days it is always easy I do not pretend"

Type of: excitation, excitement, fervor [US], fervour [Brit, Cdn], inflammation, symptom

Encyclopedia: Feverishness