[f. prec. + -NESS.] The condition or state of being vertiginous; dizziness, giddiness. Also fig.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 12/1. Applye it on his Foreheade and on the Temples of the heade,… as long as the vertiginousnes dureth and continueth.
c. 1628. Donne, Serm., 658. It was a staggering, a vertiginousnesse, an ignorance.
1653. Jer. Taylor, Serm., I. xxi. 282. He that commits sacriledge, is marked for a vertiginousnesse and changeable fortune.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. (1810), II. 416. We would all climb into high places, not considering the precipices on which they stand, nor the vertiginousness of our own brains.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Giddiness,… Vertiginousness.
1846. Browning, Lett. (1899), II. 528. I got up with the old vertiginousness, or a little worse.
