qualmishness

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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
  • Other symptoms sometimes include cardiac arrhythmia, nausea, vomiting, numbness, migraines, and tension headaches.
    Maria Berentzen, Vogue, 30 June 2025
  • The variant has similar symptoms to other strains, including fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, sore throat, congestion or a runny nose, new loss of taste or smell, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, nausea or vomiting.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 28 June 2025
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  • The Vet advises in his video that symptoms and sickness may not be immediately apparent after consuming ibuprofen.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
  • The sickness got bad enough that Ayers returned to lower elevation to rest and recover for several days, before heading back.
    Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • For weeks, club officials weighed the delicacy of such a decision, monitoring the situation for improvement.
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • Persuading two conservative Justices to extend this highly formalistic reasoning into a constitutional equal-protection case about pediatric gender-affirming medicine required delicacy.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 20 June 2025
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“Qualmishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/qualmishness. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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