queasiness

1
as in nausea
a disturbed condition of the stomach in which one feels like vomiting he still battled queasiness, even on large cruise ships

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as in squeamishness
the tendency to be or state of being squeamish a girl who has no queasiness about bugs at all

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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
Noun
  • Remember the symptoms of heat exhaustion In extreme cases, intense heat can lead to sickness as your body struggles to regulate its temperature.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 26 June 2025
  • There’s a cultural sickness at the heart of this — the tendency to mistake charisma for character, proximity for integrity, success for safety.
    Rob Shuter, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
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“Queasiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queasiness. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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