anhelation

Meanings

1. Breathing difficulty, shortness of breath.
2. Mental or spiritual agitation.
3. Followed by after or for: eager desire; (countable) an instance of this.

Etymology

From French anhélation, or directly from its etymon Latin anhēlātiō (“shortness of breath, gasping, panting, puffing”) (compare Late Latin anhēlātiō (“desire; eager pursuit”)), from anhēlātus (“exhaled”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs). Anhēlātus is the perfect passive participle of anhēlō (“to breathe out, exhale; to draw breath with difficulty, gasp, pant, puff”).