ad nauseam

1. 1.

   to a sickening extent

   “he played the song ad nauseam”

Questions about ad nauseam

What does ad nauseam mean?

ad nauseam means "to a sickening extent".

Is ad nauseam a common word?

ad nauseam is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.