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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A feeling of sickness in the stomach characterized by an urge to vomit. See Usage Note at nauseous.
  2. n. Strong aversion; disgust.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Seasickness; hence, any sensation of impending vomiting; qualm.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A feeling of physical unwellness, usually with the desire to vomit.
  2. n. Strong dislike or disgust.
  3. n. seasickness

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the state that precedes vomiting
  2. n. disgust so strong it makes you feel sick

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Latin, from Greek nautiā, nausiē, seasickness, from nautēs, sailor, from naus, ship; see nāu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “He wants "to feel the deep heat beating into his body, feel the body itself, reclaim the body from what he called the nausea of News and Traffic.”

    Slate Magazine

  • “This is what he wanted, to feel the deep heat beating into his body, feel the body itself, reclaim the body from what he called the nausea of News and Traffic.”

    Excerpt: Point Omega by Don DeLillo

  • “The trip involves a full day on the water, in nausea-making conditions.”

    Susan Casey - An interview with author

  • “Continued exposure to CO may result in nausea, vomiting, visual disturbances and difficulty in concentrating.”

    Carbon Monoxide

  • “Soon after, Mendoza says he was given pills that resulted in nausea and diarrhea.”

    Man alleges assault, unwanted pills at Narconon facility

  • “Another thing that helps with my nausea is to always keep a little bit of food in my tummy even if I just puked, and the best thing I can stomach is pre-canned chocolate slim-fast.”

    Pregnancy. Sucks. | Her Bad Mother

  • “In fact, I feel my nausea from the last attempt vanishing again so next month I will give Paul another chance.”

    Are There Any SF/F Books You Could Not Finish?

  • “Your nausea is caused by your hormones building up in your liver and overflowing into your blood stream (yay! lots of hormones, blah, blah, blah, hearty embryo, etc).”

    Knocked Up And Knocked Down | Her Bad Mother

  • “[Link] Microfilm nausea is a well-documented ailment, and one that will remain with us until the last roll is digitized, and the last bulb burns out.”

    Genealogy Can Be Nauseating

  • “According to CNN on October 19, being infected with the intestinal form of anthrax results in "nausea, lack of appetite, and fever.”

    Coping Strategies

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. seasickness
  1. qualm
  1. loathing

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. disgust

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. dizziness
  2. headache
  3. discomfort
  1. diarrhea
  2. vertigo
  3. faintness
  1. sickness
  2. insomnia
  3. nervousness
  1. exhaustion
  2. weariness
  3. revulsion
  1. malaise
  2. palpitation
  3. ache
  1. fright
  2. giddiness
  3. panic

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. wamble
  2. morning sickness
  3. queasiness
  4. motion sickness
  5. qualm
  6. squeamishness
  7. dyspepsia
  8. loathe
  9. loathing
  10. nauseative
  11. upbraiding
  12. nauseant
  13. nauseously
  14. qualmish
  15. qualmishness
  16. scunner
  17. seasick
  18. sickening
  19. sick headache
  20. squeasiness
  21. Medicine&issue
  1. airsickness
  2. botulism
  3. gag
  4. fastidium
  5. heat exhaustion
  6. amebic dysentery
  7. radiation sickness
  8. meclizine
  9. nauseate
  10. sickness
  11. nauseating
  12. scopolamine
  13. nausea anesthesia
  14. mass sociogenic illness
  15. grayanotoxin
  16. trichinosis
  17. toxic shock
  18. toxic shock syndrome
  19. TSS
  20. vile
  21. vomitive
  1. ad nauseam
  2. giardiasis
  3. Sartre
  4. migraine
  5. perphenazine
  6. wave
  7. parathion poisoning
  8. Persian Gulf illness
  9. phrenitis
  10. prochlorperazine
  11. radiation syndrome
  12. ratbite fever
  13. recurrent fever
  14. regional enteritis
  15. regional ileitis
  16. relapsing fever
  17. sickish
  18. stomach upset
  19. upset stomach
  20. green
  21. butterfly
  1. disgust
  2. settle
  3. sickly
  4. nauseous
  5. queasy
  6. disulfiram
  7. dronabinol
  8. emetic
  9. ergotism
  10. fool's parsley
  11. gastritis
  12. heat prostration
  13. hyoscine
  14. indigestion
  15. lesser hemlock
  16. loathsome
  17. meningitis
  18. mountain sickness
  19. nauseated
  20. noisome
  21. offensive
  1. radiation
  2. sick
  3. vomit
  4. pall
  5. aethusa cynapium
  6. altitude sickness
  7. Antabuse
  8. antiemetic
  9. antiemetic drug
  10. antineoplastic
  11. antineoplastic drug
  12. cancer drug
  13. cephalitis
  14. Crohn's disease
  15. encephalitis
  16. Gulf War syndrome
  17. revolt
  18. seasickness
  19. space sickness
  20. illness
  21. mawkish
  1. nice
  2. sicken
  3. surfeit
  4. veta

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