seasickness

American  

[see-sik-nis] / ˈsiˌsɪk nɪs /

noun

1. nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the rocking or swaying motion of a vessel in which one is traveling at sea.

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Etymology

Origin of seasickness

First recorded in 1615–25; sea + sickness

Example Sentences

After spending a week and a half sailing halfway across the far southern Pacific, tossed between 20-foot waves and crippling bouts of seasickness, Chris Brown reached his destination.

From The Wall Street Journal

Uncle Dutch says back in the cornfields he hadn’t thought about seasickness and bad food and nasty sailors, and that’s what he found there.

From Literature

For now, my immediate concern was, once again, my seasickness.

From Literature

Then, as one day and another and another pass, we are all stricken with seasickness and grow weak from vomiting and dizzy spells.

From Literature

“Thank you—well, I have only just gotten home myself. And I confess, I have grown weary of train schedules and troikas, seasickness and hot air balloons.”

From Literature