失しっ神しん

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失神する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	失しっ神しんする	失しっ神しんしない
Polite	失しっ神しんします	失しっ神しんしません
Past polite	失しっ神しんしました	失しっ神しんしませんでした
Past	失しっ神しんした	失しっ神しんしなかった
Te-form	失しっ神しんして	失しっ神しんしないで
Desire	失しっ神しんしたい	失しっ神しんしたくない
Potential	失しっ神しんできる	失しっ神しんできない
Passive	失しっ神しんされる	失しっ神しんされない
Causative	失しっ神しんさせる	失しっ神しんさせない
Causative passive	失しっ神しんさせられる	失しっ神しんさせられない
Volitional	失しっ神しんしよう
Polite volitional	失しっ神しんしましょう
Imperative	失しっ神しんしろ	失しっ神しんするな
Conditional	失しっ神しんすれば	失しっ神しんしなければ
Tara conditional	失しっ神しんしたら	失しっ神しんしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

fainting; losing consciousness; passing out

General term for a temporary loss of consciousness, often used in everyday and medical contexts.

暑あつさで失しっ神しんしそうになった。
I almost fainted from the heat.
彼かの女じょは突とつ然ぜん失しっ神しんして倒たおれた。
She suddenly lost consciousness and collapsed.

noun

syncope

medicine

Medical term for fainting; used in clinical or technical descriptions.

医い師しはその症しょう状じょうを失しっ神しんと診しん断だんした。
The doctor diagnosed the symptom as syncope.

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Usage patterns

〈事こと〉で失しっ神しんするto faint from/due to something
彼かれは激はげしい痛いたみで失しっ神しんした。
He fainted from the intense pain.
失しっ神しんしそうになるto nearly faint
満まん員いん電でん車しゃの暑あつさで失しっ神しんしそうになった。
I nearly fainted from the heat on the crowded train.
〈人ひと〉を失しっ神しんさせるto make someone faint (from shock, pain, etc.)
その知しらせは彼かの女じょを失しっ神しんさせるほど衝しょう撃げき的てきだった。
The news was shocking enough to make her faint.

Kanji

失lose, error, fault
神gods, mind, soul
心heart, mind, spirit

Related words

気き絶ぜつN1sense 1
気絶 is a more colloquial, dramatic word for passing out, while 失神 is slightly more formal and often used in medical contexts.
卒そっ倒とう sense 1
卒倒 is an older, more literary word for suddenly collapsing unconscious, whereas 失神 is the neutral, commonly used term today.
昏こん倒とう sense 1
昏倒 specifically emphasizes falling down while losing consciousness, while 失神 focuses on the loss of consciousness itself, not necessarily the fall.
悶もん絶ぜつ
失神 is a neutral, often medical term for losing consciousness, whereas 悶絶 adds a dramatic or humorous nuance of being overwhelmed by agony or intense feeling.
意い識しき不ふ明めいN1
失神 is a slightly literary/medical word for fainting or losing consciousness, close in meaning to 気絶, while 意識不明 emphasizes the resulting unresponsive state rather than the act of losing consciousness.

Opposites

覚かく醒せい sense 1
覚醒 means regaining consciousness or waking up, the opposite state from 失神, which means losing consciousness.

Don't confuse with

湿しっ疹しんN2
湿疹 (also read しっしん) means a skin rash or eczema, a completely different meaning from 失神's loss of consciousness despite the identical reading.
失しつ恋れんN2
失神 (to faint, lose consciousness) shares the kanji 失 with 失恋 but has nothing to do with romance; 失恋 is specifically about heartbreak.
失しっ敬けいN1
失神 (fainting) starts with the same kanji 失 as 失敬 and sounds similar, but refers to losing consciousness, not rudeness or leaving.

Word family

反はん射しゃ性せい失しっ神しん
reflex syncope
神しん経けい調ちょう節せつ性せい失しっ神しん
neurally mediated syncope; NMS

Written forms

失しっ神しんUsage98%
Standard kanji spelling for fainting or loss of consciousness.
失しっ心しんUsage2%
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form; 失神 is overwhelmingly preferred.

Etymology

Compound of 失 (loss) and 神 (spirit/mind), literally 'loss of spirit/mind'. The kanji combination directly conveys the meaning of losing consciousness.