seasickness

Noun

Meaning

The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

queasiness motion sickness naupathia mal de mer sea-sickness dizzy erysipelas sickness vomiting disgust nausea tetanus aversion dizziness scabies
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Antonyms

fortitude serious faith balance confidence boldness
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Hypernyms

motion sickness kinetosis

Phrases with the word

ability to resist seasickness freedom from seasickness ability to remain free of seasickness absence of seasickness

Examples

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. Spike Milligan

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness. Gustav Klimt

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior. Jacques Derrida

As far as I know, pornography is the only working medicine against seasickness. Piet de Jong

Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die. Roald Dahl

Seasickness at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die. Mark Twain

Close letter words and terms

seashore strawberry SEAsianE seasick seaside seaside alder seaside amaranth