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    MOTION SICKNESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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 vehicleplay

    Synonyms:

    kinetosis; motion sickness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("motion sickness" 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 "motion sickness"):

    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)

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