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A feeling of nausea or dizziness caused by a disagreement between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement; typically resulting from travel in a vehicle such as a ship or car.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: kinesia, kinetosis, swing sickness
Antonyms: none provided
the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: kinetosis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ailment, complaint, ill, nausea, sickness
Narrower terms: airsickness, air sickness, car sickness, seasickness, mal de mer, naupathia
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
دُوَار اَلْبَحْر
(duwār al-baḥr)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Catalan:
cinetosi
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Chinese Mandarin:
暈動病 /晕动病
(yùndòngbìng)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Czech:
kinetóza
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Danish:
transportsyge
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Dutch:
reisziekte
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Esperanto:
movmalsano
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Finnish:
liikepahoinvointi
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Finnish:
matkapahoinvointi
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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French:
mal des transports
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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French:
cinétose
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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French:
cinépathie
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Galician:
mareo
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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German:
Reisekrankheit
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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German:
Bewegungskrankheit
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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German:
Kinetose
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Greek:
ναυτία
(naftía)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Ancient Greek:
ναυτία
(nautía)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Hebrew:
מחלת נסיעה
(maḥălat nesiʿa)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Hindi:
मोशन सिकनेस
(mośan siknes)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Hungarian:
tengeribetegség
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Icelandic:
ferðaveiki
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Indonesian:
mabuk
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Irish:
tinneas gluaisne
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Italian:
chinetosi
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Japanese:
加速度病
(kasokudobyō)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Japanese:
乗り物酔い
(norimonoyoi)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Japanese:
船酔い
(funayoi)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Japanese:
車酔い
(kurumayoi)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Latvian:
kinetoze
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Malay:
mabuk
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Norwegian Bokmål:
reisesyke
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Polish:
choroba lokomocyjna
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Portuguese:
cinetose
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Romanian:
rău de mișcare
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Russian:
ука́чивание
(ukáčivanije)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Russian:
кинето́з
(kinetóz)
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Spanish:
cinetosis
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Spanish:
mareo
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Swedish:
åksjuka
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Swedish:
rörelsesjuka
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Turkish:
hareket hastalığı
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Turkish:
kinetozis
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
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Welsh:
salwch symud
— nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis
