Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The act of nauseating.
- n. The state of being nauseated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of nauseating, or the condition of being nauseated.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The approach to such a place makes one almost wish the undulating prairie was not quite so fair a picture, for the contrast with man's filthy squalor is so great that the feeling of nauseation which results is almost overpowering.
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Rivers's entire career, ever since she appeared on The Carson Show in 1965, has elicited both adoration and nauseation.
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Other related terms from the 17th century - nauseation, nauseative, nauseity, nausity-are now obsolete or used very rarely, but for now nauseous as used to describe the subjective state of nausea seems here to stay.
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as a friend of ours recently discovered to his nauseation and disgust.
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