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say it: SKWEE-mish-nuhs
squeamishness is a noun meaning "a mild state of nausea". It is pronounced /ˈskwimɪʃnəs/ — SKWEE-mish-nuhs. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a mild state of nausea
the trait of being excessively fastidious and easily shocked
“the program was withdrawn because of the squeamishness of some viewers”
“he refused to allow squeamishness to deter him from his duty”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for squeamishness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.