motion sickness
noun
: sickness induced by motion (as in travel by air, car, or ship) and characterized by nausea
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Rioux doesn’t enjoy boats or anything else that can cause motion sickness.
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Mark Long, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Underestimating seasickness Even people who are not prone to motion sickness can be surprised by the full embrace of seasickness.
—Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Transitioning from one gravity to another, such as from earth's gravity to weightlessness, can affect spatial orientation, head-eye and hand-eye coordination, balance and locomotion, and may cause space motion sickness, according to NASA.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
By stopping a boat’s roll stone cold, and therefore making a day on the water a pleasure for those who suffer motion sickness (that’s about a third of the population).
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2025
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Mark Long, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Underestimating seasickness Even people who are not prone to motion sickness can be surprised by the full embrace of seasickness.
—Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Transitioning from one gravity to another, such as from earth's gravity to weightlessness, can affect spatial orientation, head-eye and hand-eye coordination, balance and locomotion, and may cause space motion sickness, according to NASA.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
By stopping a boat’s roll stone cold, and therefore making a day on the water a pleasure for those who suffer motion sickness (that’s about a third of the population).
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for motion sickness
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“Motion sickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motion%20sickness. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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