QUALMISHNESS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

qualmishness

noun

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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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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Noun

Typical symptoms are a high fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle, bone or joint pain, nausea and vomiting, swollen glands, and skin rash.

— Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
Adjust workouts by reducing intensity or duration if fatigue or nausea from GLP-1 medications makes exercise difficult.

— Kristen Gasnick, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 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

Mao’s resolution treated each of these as a sickness that could sometimes be cured through a regimen of criticism and self-criticism in front of peers.

— ANDREW MERTHA, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026
In Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, evil is a native sickness that contaminates an otherwise perfect, unsullied child of empire.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of sickness

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Surgery a few days later cut out 90% of the tumor, but brain cancers are almost impossible to remove entirely, because of the delicacy of the tissue they're embedded in, Schulte said.

— Arthur Allen, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Besides beer, pretzels, pork roast and sausages were also sought-after delicacies.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of delicacy

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