dizziness

English

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Alternative forms

• dizzyness

Noun

dizziness (countable and uncountable; plural dizzinesses)

1. The state of being dizzy; the sensation of instability.

Synonyms

• giddiness
• vertigo

Translations

state of being dizzy

Albanian: marramendje (sq) Bulgarian: замайване (bg) n., замаяност (bg) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 頭暈 (zh), 头晕 (zh) (tóuyūn), 眩暈 (zh), 眩晕 (zh) (xuànyùn), 頭昏 (zh), 头昏 (zh) (tóuhūn) Czech: závrať (cs) f. Dutch: duizeligheid (nl) Finnish: huimaus (fi)

French: vertige (fr) m., défaillance (fr) f. German: Schwindel (de) m. Greek: ζαλάδα (el) f. Japanese: 眩暈 (ja), 目暈 (ja) (めまい, memai), くらくら (ja) (kurakura) (mimetic) Portuguese: tontura (pt) f., vertigem (pt) f. Russian: головокружение (ru) (golovokružénije) n. Serbian: omamica f. Spanish: mareo (es) m., vértigo (es) m.

See also

• lightheadedness

External links

• dizziness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• dizziness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911