kinetosis

Questions about kinetosis

What does kinetosis mean?

kinetosis means "the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle".

How many syllables are in kinetosis?

kinetosis has 4 syllables and divides as ki-ne-to-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for kinetosis?

Close synonyms include motion sickness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kinetosis a common word?

kinetosis is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.