deliquium
Noun
Meaning
A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.
A sinking away; a swooning.
A melting or maudlin mood.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
faint
syncope
swoon
running
fusion
brain
collapse
melting
dissolution
exhaustion
paralysis
palsy
softening
shortness
prostration
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All over the world, the nation, in a dream Of money and love and sport, hangs at the paps Of well-being, and so Goes fattening, mellowing, dozing, rotting down Into a rich deliquium of decay.