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Definition: Dizziness |
DizzinessNoun1. A reeling sensation; feeling about to fall. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dizziness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Note: Dizziness \Diz"zi*ness\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression dysigness folly. See Dizzy.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An imprecise term which may refer to a sense of spatial disorientation, motion of the environment, or lightheadedness. (references) |
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Synonyms: DizzinessSynonyms: giddiness (n), lightheadedness (n), vertigo (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insanity | Vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis. |
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Crosswords: Dizziness |
| English words defined with "dizziness": Chemical Mace ♦ heat exhaustion, heat prostration, hyperventilation ♦ Mace, Meniere's disease ♦ prostration ♦ Scotomy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dizziness": Coriolis, coriolis effects ♦ High Pressure Neurological Syndrome, hyperventilation syndrome ♦ LOUIS XVIII ♦ miners' nystagmus ♦ Neurocirculatory Asthenia. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dizziness": Scotomy, swindler. (references) |
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Screenplays | And it explains, uh, the dizziness, and the illusion of light. (Phenomenon; writing credit: Gerald Di Pego) | |
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Soren Kierkegaard | Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Dizziness seemed to have built it by flappings of its wing. |
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Health | Dizziness or feeling faint. (references) | |
This will help prevent dizziness. (references) | ||
A sensation of dizziness or vertigo (spinning). (references) | ||
Human Rights | Bulgaria | Police handcuffed Mironov, stating that he had put up "fierce resistance." Mironov later complained of dizziness, fainted, and died before emergency assistance could arrive. (references) |
Travel | Mexico | Upon arrival in Mexico City, the sensation of increased respiration, rapid heart rate, and mild dizziness are normal adaptive processes. (references) |
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| "Dizziness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dizziness" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 96 | 33,456 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dizziness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | marrje mendje, marramendje (giddiness, reel, swimming, vertigo), kalamendje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سدر, دوخة (spell, vertigo), دوار (daze, giddiness, revolutionary, revolving, rolling, rotary, rotating, rotational, rotative, rotatory, sturdy, swim, swimming, swinging, turn, vertigo, voluble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | виене на свят (giddiness), зашеметяване, замаяност (daze), замайване (giddiness, spin, swim, vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 头晕. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | svimmelhed (vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | duizeligheid (vertigo), duizeling (vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | vertiĝo (vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pyörrytys (giddiness, vertigo), pyörryttää (giddiness, vertigo), huimaus (giddiness, vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vertige. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schwindel (bogus, con, con trick, confidence game, dodge, fake, fakes, fraud, giddiness, goldbrick, imposture, lie, quackery, skin game, swindle, vertigo), taumel (frenzy, giddiness, rapture, re eling, reeling), Schwindelanfall (fit of dizziness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζάλη (confusion, giddiness, swim, tizzy, vertigo, whirl), ίλιγγοσ (staggers, swirl, vertigo, vortex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "סתובבות "ראש (vertigo), "סתחררות (going round), סחרחורת (giddiness, stagger, swirl, vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szédülés (giddiness, swim, vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kepusingan (grogginess), kegamangan (nervousness, vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vertigine (giddiness, vertigo), capogiro (giddiness, swindle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 眩暈 (giddiness), 目眩 (giddiness), くつくつ法師 (approximately, around, bending loosely back and forth, brood over, giddiness, Kutsukutsu-boushi semi, like a small spinning object, making something, meandering, mope, repetitively, round, tediously, to bend loosely back and forth, type of cicada, worry about, wriggling body), 上気 (rush of blood to the head). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くらくら (giddiness), めまい (giddiness), じょうき (above mentioned, beaten track, information systems, proper course, rush of blood to the head, steam, stipulation, vapour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 휸기증. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thollaneys (giddiness, headiness, stupefaction, stupor, vertigo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | svimmelhet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | izzinessday vertigem (giddiness, maziness, qualm, stagger, swim, vertigo), tontura (giddiness, maziness, qualm, stagger, swim, vertigo). (various references) buimãcealã (alarm, confusion, consternation, dismay, stupefaction), ameţealã (giddiness, intoxication, vertigo). (various references) головокружение (giddiness, swimming, vertigo, wooziness). (various references) tuaineal (stupor), tuaicheal. (various references) vrtoglavica (giddiness, vertigo), ošamućenost (daze), nesvestica (faint, unconsciousness). (various references) vértigo (vertigo, whirl). (various references) yrsel (delirium, dilirium, giddiness, vertigo). (various references) เวียนศีรษะ (dizzy, swim). (various references) sersemlik (daze, dullness, fuddle, giddiness, muddle, silliness, stupidity, stupor), sersemleme (giddiness, stagger, stupefaction, stupor), baş dönmesi (giddiness, swim, swimming of the head, vertigo, whirl). (various references) запаморочення (aberration, disorder, swim, swimming). (various references) sự hoa mắt (dazzle), sự choáng váng (faintness, giddiness), sự chóng mặt (giddiness, scotodinia). (various references) penysgafnder (giddiness), pensyfrdandod (giddiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caligine, caliginem, caliginis, caligo, vertiginis, vertigo. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dizziness": dizzinesses. (additional references) | |
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"Dizziness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fizziness, tizziness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dizziness" (pronounced di"zēnus) |
| 5 | -z ē n u s | clumsiness, coziness, craziness, drowsiness, laziness, lousiness, nosiness, queasiness, uneasiness. |
| 4 | -ē n u s | airworthiness, arbitrariness, bagginess, cleanliness, cloudiness, cockiness, contrariness, creditworthiness, creepiness, deadliness, dreariness, edginess, emptiness, friendliness, frothiness, funniness, ghastliness, hairiness, happiness, holiness, liveliness, loneliness, nastiness, niggardliness, orderliness, pettiness, raciness, readiness, riskiness, roominess, rowdiness, scantiness, shakiness, silliness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, solitariness, steadiness, stinginess, sturdiness, tardiness, tastiness, timeliness, trustworthiness, ugliness, unhappiness, unwieldiness, wariness, weariness, wimpiness, worldliness, worthiness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, Conus, coolness, correctness, creativeness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, effectiveness, elusiveness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, fullness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, handedness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, quickness, quietness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, robustness, roughness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tartness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, truthfulness, unconsciousness, unfairness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-s-s-z-z" | |
-2 letters: dizzies, insides, seizins. | |
-3 letters: diesis, dizens, indies, inside, niseis, seisin, seizin. | |
-4 letters: dines, dizen, indie, issei, nides, nisei, sends, sides, sines, sized, sizes, sneds, snide, zeins. | |
-5 letters: deni, dens, dies, dine, dins, diss, ends, ides, ness, nide, nidi, nisi, seis, send, side, sine, sins, size, sned, zeds, zein, zins. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n-s-s-z-z" | |
+2 letters: dizzinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 7A 7A 69 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. --.. --.. .. -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01111010 01111010 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i z z i n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 007A 007A 0069 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387592927580718585 |
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