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Definitions: Nausea |
NauseaNoun1. The state that precedes vomiting. 2. Disgust so strong it makes you feel sick. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nausea" was first used: some time in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Nausea \Nau"se*a\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from ship. See Nave of church, and compare to Noise.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Aerospace | A feeling of discomfort in the region of the stomach, with aversion to food and a tendency to vomit. (references) |
Health | An unpleasant sensation in the stomach usually accompanied by the urge to vomit. Common causes are early pregnancy, sea and motion sickness, emotional stress, intense pain, food poisoning, and various enteroviruses. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is a symptom of a huge variety of conditions, from motion sickness to morning sickness and encompassing viral infections and many other diseases. It is a side effect of many drugs, both therapeutic and recreational.
In medicine, nausea is the cause of most distressing problems during some chemotherapy regimens. Nausea is also a well-known "side-effect" of pregnancy and of blood donation.
Whilst short-term nausea and vomiting are in themselves harmless, they are indicative of some disease which may be serious, and a longer episode can result in serious dehydration, which is dangerous.
Symptomatic treatment for nausea and vomiting usually includes avoidance of solid food (which is usually easy as nausea suffers tend to refuse to eat) and rehydration (with electrolyte solutions if the symptoms have been persistent).
Nausea (French La Nausée) is a novel by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nausea."
Synonym: NauseaSynonym: sickness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness, aversation, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate; animosity; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood; (unsavory); shuddering, cold sweat. |
Weariness | Disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness; satiety; taedium vitae; (dejection); boredom, ennui. |
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Screenplays | Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea. Pain and craving. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) | |
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Health | Domperidone also helps with nausea. (references) | |
Sometimes nausea and vomiting occur. (references) | ||
Sedatives may help if the nausea continues. (references) | ||
Travel | Mexico | Insomnia, fatigue, circulatory problems, symptoms of dehydration, and nausea are common, but pass quickly. (references) |
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| "Nausea" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.07% of the time. "Nausea" is used about 259 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) | 98.07% | 254 | 18,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.93% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 259 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nausea": bring by nausea ♦ feeling of nausea ♦ felling of nausea ♦ morning nausea ♦ overcome by nausea ♦ Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "nausea": nausea-inducing. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nausea | 514 |
nausea pregnancy | 83 |
cause of nausea | 49 |
dizziness and nausea | 27 |
nausea medication | 26 |
headache and nausea | 23 |
nausea remedy | 22 |
cure for nausea | 22 |
nausea vomiting | 21 |
chronic nausea | 20 |
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| Language | Translations for "nausea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | neveri (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, contempt, disdain, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, gorge, horror, loathing, odiousness, odium, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scorn), të pështjellë, të përzier. (various references) | |
Arabic | قرف (cause disgust, disgust, loathing, revulsion), غثيان (disgust, qualm, queasiness, sickness, squeamishness), تقزز (nauseate, repulsion, revolt, revulsion), إشمئزاز شديد, إشمئزاز (abhorrence, horror, loathing, obsession, pout, qualm, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, sway). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гадене (qualm, queasiness, queerness, retch, retching, sickness), отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, allergy, antipathy, detestation, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, horror, loathing, odium, phobia, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scunner, sickener), морска болест (seasickness), погнусяване, погнуса (abhorrence, abomination, disgust, loathing, revulsion), повръщане (puke, sickness, vomiting), повдигане (boost, heave, levitation, lift, lifting, promotion, queasiness, queerness, retch, retching, rising, taking up, uptake). (various references) | |
Chinese | 恶心 (Abominable). (various references) | |
Czech | nevolnost (malaise, qualm, qualmishness), zvedání žaludku, odpor (antipathy, aversion, contradiction, disgust, dislike, distaste, opposition, protest, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, resistance, revulsion), ošklivost (detestation, disgust, repugnance, ugliness). (various references) | |
Danish | væmmelse (disgust, loathing). (various references) | |
Dutch | walging (abhorrence, abomination, disgust, horror, loathing), walg (disgust, loathing), nausea, misselijkheid (disgust), afkeer (antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, loathing). (various references) | |
Esperanto | naŭzo (disgust). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vaml (disgust, loathing). (various references) | |
Farsi | حالت تهوع (Qualm), حالت استفراغ , انزجار (Abhorrence, Antipathy, Disgust, Mislike, Phobia, Pique), دل اشوب . (various references) | |
Finnish | pahoinvointi, kuvotus, kuvottaa, iljetys (loathing). (various references) | |
French | nausée. (various references) | |
Frisian | mier (aversion, disgust, dislike, loathing). (various references) | |
German | Ekel (aversion, beast, disgust, distaste, loathing, odious person, revulsion, squeamishness, toad), Nausea, brechreiz, Übelkeit (disgust, loathing), übelkeit (morning sickness, qualm, queasiness, rankness, sickness, squeamishness, undesirability). (various references) | |
Greek | ναυτία (car sickness, nauseousness, qualm, seasickness, travel sickness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחלת ים (sea sickness), מ'על (disgust, revulsion), קבס, 'על פש (detestation, disgust, loathing, odiousness), 'על (disgust, horror, loathing, repulsion, revulsion), 'עול (abhorrence, dirty, loathing, unclean), בחיל" (disgust, fulsomeness, noisomemess, queasiness, revulsion, sickness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | undor (abhorrence, abomination, cloying, disgust, loathing, my gorge rises at it, repugnance, rising of the stomach, surfeit), hányinger (feeling of sickness, retch, retching), undorodás (distaste, horror, loathing), tengeribetegség, megcsömörlés, csömör (cloying, disgust, heaving, rising of the stomach, surfeit), émelygés (qualm, queasiness, retch, rising of the stomach, sickness, squeamishness, surfeit). (various references) | |
Italian | nausea (disgust, feel sick, qualm, queasiness, sickness), ripugnanza (abhorrence, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, loathing, repugnance), avversione (abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, detestation, disgust, disinclination, dislike, distaste, loathing, repugnance, revolt, revulsion). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 悪心 (evil thought, malicious motive, urge to vomit), 吐き気 (sickness in the stomach), "き気 , み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おし" (evil thought, malicious motive, urge to vomit), あくし" (evil thought, malicious motive, urge to vomit), むかむか (queasy, surge of anger), はきけ (sickness in the stomach). (various references) | |
Korean | 구역질. (various references) | |
Manx | jiooldaght (biliousness, negativity, queasiness, rejection, sickliness, squeamishness), feohdys (abomination), chingys gailley (gastric troubles, stomach pain). (various references) | |
Papiamen | disgustu (dejection, disgust, loathing, sadness, sorrow), disgusto (disgust, loathing), desgusto (disgust, loathing), debòr (abhorrence, abomination, disgust, horror, loathing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | auseanay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | náusea (qualm, queasiness). (various references) | |
Romanian | silã (coercion, compulsion, constraint, forceviolence, grudge, horror, loathing, objection, pooh pooh, repletion), rãu de mare (seasickness), greaţã (abhorrence, aversion, disgust, dislike, nauseousness, queasiness, repugnance, sickness). (various references) | |
Russian | тошнота (qualmishness, queasiness, sickness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odvratnost (averse, odiousness, odium, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, sordidness, unpleasantness), muka (anguish, annoyance, limbo, need, qualm, queasiness, torment), mučnina, gađenje (disgust, loathing, qualmishness, queasiness, retch, scunner). (various references) | |
Spanish | náusea (qualm, retching), repugnancia (antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, loathing, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, unwillingness), aversión (abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, aversion, disgust, disinclination, dislike, distaste, horror, indisposition, loathing). (various references) | |
Swedish | äckel (disgust, disrelish, loathing, louses, repulsive chap, stinker), illamående (qualm, sick, sickness, unwell). (various references) | |
Thai | อาการคลื่นไส้, ความน่ารังเกียจ (nastiness, noisomeness). (various references) | |
Turkish | mide bulantısı (nauseation, qualm, queasiness, sickness), iğrenme (abhorrence, abomination, contempt, detestation, disgust, execration, hate, loathing, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion), bulantı (nauseation, qualm, queasiness, sickness). (various references) | |
Ukranian | огида (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, odium, repugnance, repulsion), нудота (aridity, aridness, distaste, qualm, queasiness, sickness, wamble), морська хвороба (seasickness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tởm, sự lộn mửa sự kinh tởm, sự bu"n nôn (qualm, qualmishness, queasiness). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nausea, nauseam, nausiam. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nausea": nauseant, nauseants, nauseas, nauseate, nauseated, nauseates, nauseating, nauseatingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nausea": antinausea. (additional references) | |
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"Nausea" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ansae, Anusha, Danusia, lauzeta, naiea, naise, Nakugen, Naseef, Nasuta, naus, nausa, nauseau, nauseo, nauses, nauset, nauseu, Naushad, nausia, Nausikaa, Nauta, nautae, Negusa, neguse, neusea, Neusel, Niseac, Niuean, nosea, Noumea, nusea, nyassae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nausea" (pronounced nô"zēu) |
| 3 | -z ē u | gymnasia. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: ansae, sauna, usnea. | |
-2 letters: anas, anes, ansa, anus, asea, sane. | |
-3 letters: aas, ana, ane, eau, ens, nae, nus, sae, sau, sea, sen, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, an, as, en, es, na, ne, nu, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: guanase, nauseas. | |
+2 letters: bandeaus, guanases, manteaus, nauseant, nauseate, saucepan, unawares. | |
+3 letters: acutances, aeronauts, anacruses, analogues, angulates, aquatones, assurance, auslander, calcaneus, canulates, epifaunas, eulachans, evacuants, guaranies, harangues, languages, nauseants, nauseated, nauseates, oceanauts, pansexual, runagates, saucepans, slanguage, sugarcane, sultanate, unabashed, unashamed, unsalable, unsayable. | |
+4 letters: abundances, acanthuses, aluminates, amanuenses, amanuensis, ambulances, amiantuses, andalusite, aneurysmal, annualizes, antinausea, antiquates, antisexual, aquaplanes, arenaceous, assurances, athenaeums, attenuates, auslanders, calendulas, casualness, centaureas, crustacean, euthanasia, euthanasic, granulates, guarantees, guaranties, haranguers, hausfrauen, infatuates, landaulets, malaguenas, mandamused, mandamuses, megafaunas, menopausal, naturalise, naumachies, nauseating, neuralgias, pandanuses, pasquinade, quadrantes, quandaries, restaurant, semiannual, slanguages, submanager, succedanea, sugarcanes, sultanates, suprarenal, tantaluses, transudate, transvalue, unappeased, unassailed, unassuaged, unbalances, unbandages, unpassable, unpleasant, unsalaried, unsaturate, unscalable, unshakable, unslakable. | |
+5 letters: acaulescent, accentuates, adenomatous, adjutancies, admeasuring, adulterants, aeronautics, ailanthuses, andalusites, animalcules, annunciates, antinatures, antiplagues, antiquaries, aquamarines, aquaplaners, aquatinters, assuagement, attenuators, beauticians, calumniates, cantaloupes, causewaying, crustaceans, denaturants, encapsulate, euthanasias, evacuations, evaluations, factualness, farinaceous, fricandeaus, glutaminase, gradualness, inaugurates, langlaufers, laureations, manipulates, naturalised, naturalises, naturalizes, naturalness, oceanariums, outbalances, pasquinaded, pasquinades, pastureland, quadrangles, quantitates, quarantines, quartersawn, reacquaints, reassurance, restaurants, sanctuaries, saponaceous, sauerbraten, seminatural, solanaceous, strangulate, sublanguage, submanagers, supernatant, suprarenals, sustainable, transsexual, transudates, transvalued, transvalues, unabashedly, unashamedly, unaspirated, unawareness, unballasted, uncastrated, unescapable, ungraspable, unsaturated, unsaturates, unseparated, unspeakable, unspeakably, vernaculars, vulcanisate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 75 73 65 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- ..- ... . .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a u s e a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0075 0073 0065 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)486787857167 |
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