SEASICKNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seasickness mean? 

• SEASICKNESS (noun)
  The noun SEASICKNESS has 1 sense:

1. motion sickness experienced while traveling on water

  Familiarity information: SEASICKNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEASICKNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Motion sickness experienced while traveling on water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

mal de mer; naupathia; seasickness

Hypernyms ("seasickness" is a kind of...):

kinetosis; motion sickness (the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle)

Derivation:

seasick (experiencing motion sickness)

 Context examples 

After the second day, recovered from seasickness, the full passenger list was in evidence, and the more he saw of the passengers the more he disliked them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)