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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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also queazy
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as in worried
feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty
since I don't know much about mechanical things, I'm always queasy when dealing with auto mechanics
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Recent Examples of queasiness
Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
Britain has watched President Trump’s tariffs with a mix of shock, fascination and queasy recognition.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Feeling queasy, Frank tried to stumble back to the base, but collapsed somewhere along the way.
—Maddy Crowell, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Shooting digitally — Soderbergh was an early digital convert, and once again serves as his own cinematographer and editor — the director favors a slightly queasy clinical quality in his lighting when a scene’s uneasiness calls for it.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Many White Lotus fans got an increasingly queasy feeling watching the siblings flirt with the boundaries of what is appropriate throughout the first half of Season 3.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
Britain has watched President Trump’s tariffs with a mix of shock, fascination and queasy recognition.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Feeling queasy, Frank tried to stumble back to the base, but collapsed somewhere along the way.
—Maddy Crowell, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Shooting digitally — Soderbergh was an early digital convert, and once again serves as his own cinematographer and editor — the director favors a slightly queasy clinical quality in his lighting when a scene’s uneasiness calls for it.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for queasiness
Noun
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Very large doses of magnesium can cause magnesium toxicity, leading to serious side effects like low blood pressure, depression, muscle weakness, nausea, vomiting, irregular heartbeat, and cardiac arrest.—
Ashley Wong,
Health,
27 May 2025
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The administration says symptoms of the virus could include diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, or fever after eating affected oysters.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
Adjective
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Each year, about 48 million people in the U.S. get sick with foodborne illnesses, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.—
Stephanie Armour,
Miami Herald,
29 May 2025
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Pregnant women are at high risk of serious complications from the virus and their newborns are in danger of getting really sick from COVID.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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However, because the pool was shallow, Lisberg was less worried.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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While Herzig is hoping to win a million dollars, his guests are all worried about their own various fantasy teams, mostly competing for a few hundred bucks.—
David Hill,
Rolling Stone,
24 May 2025
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Luther is shown struggling with a sickness early in the movie.—
Tommy McArdle,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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Organic materials like wood and oil that don’t fully burn can leave polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons — or PAHs — which can harm the immune system and cause sickness in the short term and cancer in the long term.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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The 23-year-old college student died on April 23 in Assisi, Italy, minutes after becoming nauseous while dining with friends, The Boston Globe reported in a new interview with her father published on Wednesday, May 7.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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An amusement park ride that provides thrills, but can leave you nauseous.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
7 May 2025
Adjective
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The price of gold tends to move when markets get nervous – and so does the gold.—
Ken Roberts,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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That said, one moment in the final episode did make Brashear nervous.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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The resulting scene of torture is, for my money, way worse than most anything we're exposed to in the games—and these are games that are not exactly squeamish about showing scenes of torture and extreme violence!—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
5 May 2025
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His Crimes of the Future, a distinctly anatomical vision of the world to (hopefully not) come, was just a little too gross for some of the more squeamish attendees of the Cannes Film Festival.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But behind the chants and cheering lies a troubled past.—
Tomás Hill López-Menchero,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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Set on the fictional New England island of New Penzance in the 1960s, Sam (Jared Gilman), an emotionally disturbed orphan, and Suzy (Kara Hayward), a sophisticated, yet troubled girl in the vein of Margot Tenenbaum, long to grow up and get away from the chaos that surrounds them.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
30 May 2025
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“Queasiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queasiness. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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