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Queasiness

Queasiness \Quea"si*ness\, n. The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.
--Shak.

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queasiness

n. 1 the state of being queasy; nausea 2 psychological discomfort at the prospect of having to deal with a particular issue

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queasiness

n. a mild state of nausea [syn: squeamishness, qualm]

Usage examples of "queasiness".

I tried to hide my queasiness, but Festina noticed almost immediately.

Queasiness was not generally a draconic problem, unless one was very ill.

He can feel the icy, invisible skeletal fingers scrabbling at his brainstem again, the queasiness expanding in his gut, the conviction that a web of some constricting fabric is being woven around his heart.

For stomach upsets, biliousness, queasiness, sick headaches and allied conditions.

Letting Gossel carry the negotiations for the moment, Creslin debates whether he should stir the breezes for effect, then drops the idea when he feels instant queasiness in his stomach.

We Jijoan boons love our sailing ships, I thought, fighting off waves of queasiness.

To a layman or, indeed, anybody not aboard an elderly torpedo boat, a paltry twenty-three degree difference in wind direction might seem negligible: to a person actually aboard such a boat the difference is crucial, marking, as it did for those with inbuilt queasiness, the border-line between the uncomfortable and the intolerable.

My grandmother, I realised, would have recognised this deep unease as heebie-jeebies, but I didn't know whether the feelings I was having derived from reason or instinct or simply queasiness.

My grandmother, I realized, would have recognized this deep unease as heebiejeebies, but I didn't know whether the feelings I was having derived from reason or instinct or simply queasiness.

The psychologists even claimed that activities that required mental rather than physical exertion would take their minds off their queasiness.

Adele felt the vibration more as a queasiness than a sound, but the roof tiles clicked together at a gathering rate.

Deckard had already wimped out and quit the force back then, mainly out of chickenshit queasiness over blowing away defenseless replicants .