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

• travel sickness
• kinesia
• kinetosis

Translations

• French: cinétose, mal des transports, cinépathie, nausée
• German: Reisekrankheit, Bewegungskrankheit, Kinetose; Seekrankheit (seasickness)
• Italian: chinetosi; mal di mare (seasickness)
• Portuguese: cinetose; náusea marítima (seasickness)
• Russian: ука́чивание
• Spanish: cinetosis, mareo

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