MOTION SICKNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motion sickness mean? 

• MOTION SICKNESS (noun)
  The noun MOTION SICKNESS has 1 sense:

1. the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle

  Familiarity information: MOTION SICKNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTION SICKNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

kinetosis; motion sickness

Hypernyms ("motion sickness" is a kind of...):

ailment; complaint; ill (an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining)

nausea; sickness (the state that precedes vomiting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "motion sickness"):

air sickness; airsickness (motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence))

car sickness (motion sickness experienced while traveling in a car)

mal de mer; naupathia; seasickness (motion sickness experienced while traveling on water)

 Context examples 

When it gets signals that do not match, you can get motion sickness.

(Motion Sickness, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

It is also used to treat mild Parkinson disease, to prevent and treat motion sickness, to relieve cough and cold symptoms, and as a sleep aid.

(Diphenhydramine, NCI Dictionary)

Motion sickness can also make you dizzy.

(Dizziness and Vertigo, NIH)

These include morning sickness during pregnancy, infections, migraine headaches, motion sickness, food poisoning, cancer chemotherapy or other medicines.

(Nausea and Vomiting, NIH)

Motion sickness can start suddenly, with a queasy feeling and cold sweats.

(Motion Sickness, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Motion sickness is a common problem in people traveling by car, train, airplanes and especially boats.

(Motion Sickness, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)