motion sickness

1. 1.

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

   Synonymskinetosis

   Broaderailmentnausea

   Narrowerairsicknesscar sicknessseasickness

Questions about motion sickness

What does motion sickness mean?

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

What is another word for motion sickness?

Close synonyms include kinetosis. 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 motion sickness a common word?

motion sickness 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.