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Definition: Seasickness |
SeasicknessNoun1. Motion sickness experienced while traveling on water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "seasickness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | The type of motion sickness that may affect persons travelling by sea. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SeasicknessSynonyms: mal de mer (n), naupathia (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | South Seasickness (1935) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Seasickness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Seasickness" is used about 25 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% | 25 | 69,787 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
seasickness | 42 |
seasickness remedy | 7 |
cruise seasickness | 4 |
cure for seasickness | 4 |
patch seasickness | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "seasickness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sëmundje detare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | دوار البحر, بحار (gob, man of arms, mariner, navigator, rating, sailor, sea man, seafarer, seaman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | морска болест (nausea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 晕船. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mořská nemoc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | søsyge (sea sickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zeeziekte (sea sickness, sea-sickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | marmalsano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | sjóverkur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | meritauti (sea sickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mal de mer (sea sickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | seesykte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Seekrankheit (sea sickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ναυτία (car sickness, nausea, nauseousness, qualm, travel sickness), αναγούλα (nausea, qualm, queasiness, sea-sickness, sickliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tengeri betegség (sea sickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mal di mare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 船"い , シーアンドエア方式 (CM, commercial message, off-season, sea and air system, seajack, Seasat, seaside, seaside resort, seaside school, season, season in, season sale, season stock, seasoning, secret, Secret Service, seek, seeker, see-through look, sequence, sequencer, sequential, sheath, sheath silhouette, Sikh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふなよい, シーシック . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 뱃멀미. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chingys varrey, chingys marrey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easicknesssay enjôo (motional, nausea, qualm, queasiness, satiety, scunner). (various references) rãu de mare (nausea). (various references) морская болезнь (nausea). (various references) morska bolest. (various references) mareo (airsickness, dizziness, giddiness, qualm, sea sickness, sickness). (various references) sjösjuka (acceleratory stress, sea sickness). (various references) deniz tutması (mal de mer). (various references) морська хвороба (nausea). (various references) chứng say sóng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nausea, nausiam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seasickness": seasicknesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "seasickness" (pronounced 'Sea"sick`ness'): Abstractness, Barefacedness, Bleareyedness, Commonplaceness, Complexness, Contriteness, Earwitness, Everywhereness, Expediteness, Eyewitness, forthrightness, Headstrongness, ladylikeness, Love-sickness, Manifoldness, Orthodoxness, Qualifiedness, Rightwiseness, Roundaboutness, Stupefiedness, Superfineness, Threadbareness, Unifromness, uprightness, Warlikeness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-k-n-s-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: sicknesses. | |
-3 letters: cassises, easiness, sickness. | |
-4 letters: asceses, ascesis, askeses, askesis, caseins, encases, enskies, incases, kinases, kineses, sanseis, sassies, seances, seasick, senecas, sickees, sickens, skeanes. | |
-5 letters: ackees, akenes, anises, assess, casein, cassis, ceases, censes, cesses, easies, ecesis, encase, incase, kinase, kisses, nesses, nieces, saices, sanies, sansei, sasins, sasses, scenas, scenes, seance, seines, seises, seneca, senses. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-k-n-s-s-s-s" | |
+2 letters: airsicknesses, carsicknesses, seasicknesses. | |
+3 letters: brackishnesses. | |
+4 letters: heartsicknesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 61 73 69 63 6B 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . .- ... .. -.-. -.- -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e a s i c k n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0061 0073 0069 0063 006B 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371678575697780718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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