qualmishness

noun

1
as in nausea
a disturbed condition of the stomach in which one feels like vomiting her qualmishness subsided after she had sipped a little ginger ale

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2
as in squeamishness
the tendency to be or state of being squeamish I can't explain my qualmishness about spiders, but for some reason they really bother me

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  1. nausea
  2. squeamishness
  3. sickness
  4. queasiness
  5. delicacy
Noun
  • The Aliso Canyon gas leak took nearly four months to control, sickened thousands of families and forced them from their homes near the San Fernando Valley to escape a sulfurous stench and maladies including headaches, nausea and nose bleeds.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The virus can cause fever, severe muscle and joint pain, nausea, rash and, in severe cases, dangerous complications or death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of nausea
Noun
  • Some critics’ squeamishness seems aimed at the act of invention itself, the florid dreaming in the face of reality.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Eight out of 10 survived the war, thanks in part to the relative squeamishness of Hungary’s homegrown Fascist leaders.
    — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
Definition of squeamishness
Noun
  • This could be due to sickness, a death in the family, jury duty, airline flight changes, or other scenarios.
    — Aly J Yale, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Somewhat diminished in the film’s erratic attempts to contextualize this ever-metastasizing sickness is Odeh himself.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of sickness
Noun
  • There’s a queasiness to her self-loathing that feels especially potent to the teenage experience.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • So if the tech queasiness becomes a tech sell-off, the rest of the stock market will need to do the heavy lifting.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
Definition of queasiness
Noun
  • Many monarchs are caught with nets and kept in cool temperatures to calm them before they're tagged, which requires delicacy and care.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • There’s a delicacy to Sebastián, a hushed fearfulness, that sets him apart from his new comrades.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of delicacy
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