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KINETOSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle
Synonyms:
kinetosis; motion sickness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("kinetosis" is a kind of...):
ailment; complaint; ill (an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining)
nausea; sickness (the state that precedes vomiting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kinetosis"):
air sickness; airsickness (motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence))
car sickness (motion sickness experienced while traveling in a car)
mal de mer; naupathia; seasickness (motion sickness experienced while traveling on water)
