motion sickness

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Noun

motion sickness (uncountable)

1. A feeling of nausea or dizziness caused by a disagreement between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement; typically resulting from travel in a vehicle such as a ship or car.

Synonyms

• kinesia
• kinetosis
• swing sickness

Hyponyms

• airsickness
• barfogenesis
• carsickness
• cybersickness
• seasickness, naupathia
• trainsickness
• travel sickness

Translations

nausea or dizziness in a moving vehicle

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} دُوَار اَلْبَحْر m (duwār al-baḥr)
• Catalan: cinetosi m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暈動病 / 晕动病 (yùndòngbìng)

• Czech: kinetóza f
• Danish: transportsyge c
• Dutch: reisziekte (nl) f
• Esperanto: movmalsano
• Finnish: liikepahoinvointi, matkapahoinvointi (fi)
• French: mal des transports (fr) m, cinétose (fr) f, cinépathie f
• Galician: mareo m
• German: Reisekrankheit (de) f, Bewegungskrankheit, Kinetose (de)
• Greek: ναυτία (el) f (naftía)

  Ancient Greek: ναυτία f (nautía)

• Hebrew: מחלת נסיעה (he) f (maḥălat nesiʿa)
• Hindi: मोशन सिकनेस (mośan siknes)
• Hungarian: tengeribetegség (hu)
• Icelandic: ferðaveiki f
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: mabuk (id)
• Irish: tinneas gluaisne m
• Italian: chinetosi
• Japanese: 加速度病 (ja) (かそくどびょう, kasokudobyō), (by boat) 船酔い (ja) (ふなよい, funayoi); (by car) 車酔い (ja) (くるまよい, kurumayoi); (by any vehicle) 乗り物酔い (ja) (のりものよい, norimonoyoi)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: kinetoze f
• Malay: mabuk (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reisesyke m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: choroba lokomocyjna (pl) f
• Portuguese: cinetose f
• Romanian: rău de mișcare n
• Russian: ука́чивание (ru) n (ukáčivanije), кинето́з m (kinetóz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} кинетоза f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} kinetoza (sh) f

• Spanish: cinetosis f, mareo (es) m
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} kichefuchefu (sw)
• Swedish: åksjuka (sv) c, rörelsesjuka
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} deniz tutması, hareket hastalığı (tr), kinetozis (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: salwch symud