sickness
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- noun
- /ˈsɪk.nəs/
- After eating the spoiled food, she felt an intense wave of sickness rising in her stomach.
- motion sickness
- morning sickness
- sickness and vertigo
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Watch on YouTubeYou look like you, you look dumb, but they work, but they prevent motion sickness.
- You look like you, you look dumb, but they work, but they prevent motion sickness.
- This can cause people to have that nausea like feeling or increased morning sick sickness symptoms.
- Travel calm tablets, I get really bad motion sickness or travel sickness, so having tablets are really important.
- And OK, some of it seems to be sort of slight feelings of Vertigo or sickness, and I'm not sure they've actually tracked that.
- Now some people in the head mounted display with the stereo and with motion can actually experience sickness.
- It was a sedative and anti sickness drug, and they gave birth to children, had terrible deformities.
- So you use this when your child has had a very bad sickness bug or tummy bug, they just cannot hold anything down.
- It's the main remedy for altitude sickness in the Andes.
- I've been getting a little bit of motion sickness recently.
Examples
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Hope nobody gets motion sickness.
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Very, very, very mild sickness which was instantly cured by me having a nice hearty meal or a good snack.
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You wrote it on an air sickness bag, honey.
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Oh, is it the morning sickness, is it?
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Motion sickness from the ride.
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Oh, I get motion sickness!
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I'm already beginning to have morning sickness, and I've got to be well enough to work.
Fiction book (1992) -
Marina just stared at him, a sickness rising in her throat.
Fiction book (1995) -
Ahl felt queasy; it wasn't a real sickness, she decided, but rather fear and shame.
Fiction book (1999) -
He suffered from sickness during the car ride, making him feel nauseous and uncomfortable.
Synonyms
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A sick feeling in your stomach that makes you want to vomit
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5.8
A sick feeling in the stomach and a bit of worry
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4.4
A feeling of sickness in the stomach that makes you want to throw up
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8.2
A slight feeling of sickness in your stomach
Antonyms
Compounds
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4.4
A feeling of being sick because your body has less oxygen high on a mountain
- Archaic
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7.2
A serious brain disease that makes people very weak and keeps some eye muscles from working
- Specialized
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5.7
An illness after a large amount of harmful radiation that causes nausea, vomiting, and hair loss
- Specialized
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7.4
A condition that happens when body pressure falls quickly and gas bubbles form in the body causing pain
- Specialized
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4.7
A feeling of sickness, dizziness, and difficulty breathing in high places
- Archaic
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9.9
A deadly disease in the 15th and 16th centuries that caused sudden heavy sweating and many deaths
- Archaic
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9.9
A serious brain illness that causes sudden deep sleep, muscle weakness, and eye paralysis
- Specialized
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9.8
An illness people get from drinking milk from cows that ate a poisonous plant
- Specialized
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7.6
A delayed reaction to a foreign injection that causes fever, rash, and joint pain
- Specialized
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9.9
A cattle illness that gives calves fever, heavy sweating and skin sores
- Specialized
A condition from breathing ozone at high altitude that causes headache and tiredness
How Nauseous
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sickness comes from the old English word sēoc ('sick') plus the ending -ness ('state of'), and it can mean the queasy, 'sick' feeling in your stomach. So calling that feeling sickness links it to being ill or wanting to vomit.