sickness
The state of not feeling well because of illness or disease.
The condition of having poor health, especially due to disease or infection.
A bad feeling in your stomach that makes you think you might throw up.
A feeling of discomfort in the stomach with an urge to vomit.
A certain disease or health problem that someone has.
A particular disease or disorder affecting the body or mind.
- Base: sickness
- Plural: sickness, sicknesses
motion sickness
1nausea from traveling movement
Feeling sick because of movement in a car, boat, plane, etc.
- I always get motion sickness on long car trips.
- She took medicine to prevent motion sickness before the cruise.
altitude sickness
1illness from being at high altitude
A health problem with headache, sickness, and tiredness that some people get when they go too high above sea level too quickly.
- Climbers can get altitude sickness if they go up too fast.
- Several climbers had to stop because of severe altitude sickness.
- He had to stop hiking due to altitude sickness.
- Drinking plenty of water can help reduce the risk of altitude sickness.
- Tourists are advised to ascend slowly to avoid altitude sickness.
morning sickness
1pregnancy-related nausea
Feeling sick in the stomach, often in the morning, that some women have during early pregnancy.
- Morning sickness is common during the first trimester.
- Morning sickness is common in the first trimester of pregnancy.
- She had to leave work early because of her morning sickness.
- She had morning sickness almost every day for two months.