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Nausea is a feeling of sickness in your stomach, as if you might vomit.

People can experience nausea from food that has upset their stomach, from the side effects of medications, or from a number of other conditions that affect the stomach, such as seasickness, motion sickness, morning sickness, carsickness, and anxiety.

To have nausea is to feel nauseous or nauseated. To nauseate is to cause nausea. Things that cause nausea can be described as nauseating (or, less commonly, nauseous).

The word nausea can also be used in a figurative way meaning a feeling of disgust, revulsion, or repulsion, as in I felt a sense of nausea wash over me when witnessing their cruelty. ��

Example: If you feel nausea coming on, try lying down and breathing through your nose.

The first records of the word nausea come from the 1500s. It is thought to derive from the Greek �Բ��ܲ�í��, meaning “seasickness,” from �Բ�û��, meaning “ship” (the same root is the basis of the word nautical).

Nausea makes you feel like you might throw up, but it doesn’t always end in throwing up. It’s a terrible feeling and it can be caused by very different things, including bad food, inner ear problems, and stress.

The figurative sense of nausea is not that commonly used. When someone experiences this kind of nausea, it’s more common to describe them as nauseated or to describe the thing that’s causing the figurative nausea as nauseating.

Notably, Nausea is the title of a 1938 existentialist novel by Jean-Paul Sartre whose main character experiences literal, figurative, and metaphorical nausea.

What are some other forms related to nausea?

• nauseous (adjective)
• nauseate (verb)
• nauseated (past tense verb, adjective)
• nauseating (continuous tense verb, adjective)
• nauseant (adjective, noun)

What are some synonyms for nausea?

• queasiness
• disgust
• revulsion
• repulsion

What are some words that share a root or word element with nausea?

• nautical

What are some words that often get used in discussing nausea?

• sick to one’s stomach
• queasy
• feel
• sick
• stomach
• vomit
• throw up
• motion sickness
• seasickness
• morning sickness
• carsick
• anxiety
• eat
• food

The word nausea is most commonly used in a literal sense in the context of someone who feels like they might vomit.

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Which of the following words can be used as a synonym of the figurative sense of nausea?

A. disgust
B. repulsion
C. revulsion
D. all of the above