nausea

Other forms of nausea

plural

nauseas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nausea

What does nausea mean?

nausea means "the state that precedes vomiting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nausea?

nausea has 3 syllables: na-u-sea. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˈnɔziə/.

What is another word for nausea?

Close synonyms include 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 nausea a common word?

nausea is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.