motion sickness

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motion sickness

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  1. uncountable A feeling of nausea or dizziness caused by a disagreement between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement; typically resulting from travel in a vehicle such as a ship or car.

    Similar: kinesia, kinetosis, swing sickness

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noun nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle — see also kinetosis

Españolcinetosis, mareo
日本語加速度病 kasokudobyō, 乗り物酔い norimonoyoi, 船酔い funayoi, 車酔い kurumayoi
中文暈動病 /晕动病 yùndòngbìng
हिन्दीमोशन सिकनेस mośan siknes
Portuguêscinetose
Françaismal des transports, cinétose, cinépathie
DeutschReisekrankheit, Bewegungskrankheit, Kinetose
Italianochinetosi
Ελληνικάναυτία naftía
Românărău de mișcare
Русскийука́чивание ukáčivanije, кинето́з kinetóz
العربيةدُوَار اَلْبَحْر duwār al-baḥr
עבריתמחלת נסיעה maḥălat nesiʿa

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@misc{motion_sickness_2026,
  title = {motion sickness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/motion%20sickness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}