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noun Pathology.
a complex of symptoms including nausea, lethargy, headache, and sweating, occurring among astronauts under conditions of weightlessness.
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Origin of space sickness

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby space sickness

space-saving, space science, spaceship, spaceshot, space shuttle, space sickness, space stage, space station, spacesuit, Space Telescope, space-time
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British Dictionary definitions for space sickness

space sickness
noun
the nausea that people can experience in the gravity-free environment of space
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