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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The sensation of dizziness.
  2. n. An instance of such a sensation.
  3. n. A confused, disoriented state of mind.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Dizziness; giddiness; a condition in which the individual or the objects around him appear to be whirling about. It is called subjective vertigo when the patient seems to himself to be turning, and objective vertigo when it is the surrounding objects that appear to move.
  2. n. [capitalized] [NL.] In conchology, a genus of pulmonates, typical of the family Vertiginidæ.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
  2. n. A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
  3. n. The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.
  2. n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall

Etymologies

  1. From Latin vertīgō. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Latin vertīgō, from vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Further, my vertigo is at a point where the highs and the lows are varying a lot.”

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

  • “My grandma is bringing my grandpa's walking stick over for me, because we have reached the point in vertigo treatment where my current treatment will in no way get messed up if I use a cane.”

    mrissa: Milestone

  • “One of the things I have worried about with this stupid vertigo is that someone I care about will interpret my behavior as not caring about them when it's really that I can't do something because of the vertigo, or else that the price of doing that thing would be so immensely high as to be not really worth it.”

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

  • “A couple days ago a friend asked a question that seemed like it might have more broad application than just the social situation he was mentioning, so I thought I would put it and my answer here: what he wanted to know was whether I am okay accepting help from people outside my immediate family in order to be able to do stuff while the stupid vertigo is still around.”

    mrissa: I'm not proud. Or tired. Well, kind of tired.

  • “And it's not like the vertigo is something you actively chose specifically so you could get on people's nerves, for chrissakes.”

    mrissa: "Rissy, 90% of the things you worry about never come to pass."--Grandpa

  • “Being unable to do something due to the vertigo is not the same as not wanting to do something.”

    mrissa: "Rissy, 90% of the things you worry about never come to pass."--Grandpa

  • “I am still sick, and my vertigo is still travel-whomped, so my big NYE plans involve a desperate hope for hot and sour soup, on the theory that it is good for congestion and will be strongly flavored enough to help cut through the vertigo-plus-cold appetite woes. markgritter is also sick.”

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

  • “It really sucks that the vertigo is still a problem.”

    mrissa: State of the Mris Report

  • “I don't know how much or how long the increased vertigo is going to interfere with the rest of the season's plans.”

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. giddiness
  1. dizziness

hypernyms (1)

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  1. symptom

same context (22)

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  1. dizziness
  2. giddiness
  3. faintness
  4. drowsiness
  1. malaise
  2. numbness
  3. insomnia
  4. palpitation
  1. sleeplessness
  2. indigestion
  3. tachycardia
  4. queasiness
  1. sickness
  2. epilepsy
  3. delirium
  4. tiredness
  1. paralysis
  2. lassitude
  3. unease
  4. tremor
  1. homesickness
  2. euphoria

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. ophthalmic migraine
  2. dizziness
  3. dizzy
  4. cinchonism
  5. cœnurus
  6. cascarilla bark
  1. turn-sick
  2. gid
  3. merligoes
  4. migrainous
  5. sausage-poisoning
  6. dinus
  1. giddily
  2. crotonism
  3. scotodinia
  4. otitis interna
  5. prosper meniere
  6. ramsay hunt syndrome
  1. vertiginous
  2. tiego
  3. labyrinthitis
  4. meniere
  5. megrim
  6. ménière's disease
  1. cerebro-spinal sclerosis
  2. stagger
  3. swimming
  4. vertigo
  5. giddiness
  6. giddy
  1. sicken
  2. vanillism
  3. vertiginidæ
  4. veta

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  • Louises I could feel her sometimes looking back to her werewolf life before we'd met and feeling a kind of retroactive vertigo or nausea that she'd survived it alone so long. It was as if the sun had come up and shown her for the first time how close to the edge of a thousand foot drop she'd been walking in the dark. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 18, 2012

  • trivet It is a good dad joke. Apr 23, 2008

  • reesetee Haha! *must tell Dad* Apr 23, 2008

  • sarra “Have you got vertigo?”
    “No, I only live round the corner.”

    *dies* Apr 23, 2008

  • mollusque Also a genus of tiny snails. Mar 5, 2008

  • courier12 Good movie, bad illness. Dec 14, 2006

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