airsickness

English

Alternative forms

• air sickness, air-sickness

Etymology

From air +‎ sickness or airsick +‎ -ness.

Noun

airsickness (usually uncountable, plural airsicknesses)

1. A feeling of nausea, dizziness etc. caused by the motion of an aircraft; a form of motion sickness.

Synonyms

• flight sickness

Hypernyms

• motion sickness (kinetosis)

Coordinate terms

• carsickness
• seasickness
• trainsickness

Translations

form of motion sickness

• Esperanto: aermalsano
• Finnish: matkapahoinvointi (fi)
• French: mal de l’air (fr) m
• German: Luftkrankheit (de) f, Flugkrankheit f, Fliegerkrankheit f
• Hungarian: légibetegség (hu)
• Icelandic: flugveiki f
• Japanese: 飛行機酔い (hikōki-yoi)
• Polish: choroba powietrzna f