Definition of motion sickness
: sickness induced by motion (as in travel by air, car, or ship) and characterized by nausea
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My oldest son has a pile of unfinished homework and is fighting a case of motion sickness.
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Consumers still report motion sickness using the product, while content for the headsets remains sparse.
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The man who creates close to 100 roller coasters around the world suffers from motion sickness.
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The new MONKEYmedia approach to solving VR motion sickness is to decouple the three axes of movement from the visual plane.
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But experiencing motion sickness on the job is nothing new for pilots and astronauts.
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As is true of most things, your psychological state matters: While nearly every human is susceptible to motion sickness, people prone to anxiety and neuroticism are more so.
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If prone to motion sickness, lower decks and cabins closest to ship's center are the most stable.
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But motion sickness might mar that idealized vision, says psychologist Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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First Known Use of motion sickness
1881
MOTION SICKNESS Defined for English Language Learners
motion sickness
Definition of motion sickness for English Language Learners
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: a feeling of sickness caused by the motion of a car, airplane, boat, etc.
Medical Dictionary
motion sickness
medical Definition of motion sickness
: sickness induced by motion (as in travel by air, car, or ship) and characterized by nausea — called also
kinetosis
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