dizziness

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dizziness

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dizzyness

Etymology edit

From Middle English disynes, duysenes, from Old English dysiġnes (“dizziness, folly, foolishness, blasphemy”), equivalent to dizzy +‎ -ness.

Noun edit

dizziness (countable and uncountable, plural dizzinesses)

The state of being dizzy; the sensation of instability.

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Hyponyms edit

scotomy

Translations edit

state of being dizzy

Albanian: marramendje (sq)
Arabic: دُوَار m (duwār)
Egyptian Arabic: دوخة f (dūḵa)

Hijazi Arabic: دوخة f (dōḵa)

Moroccan Arabic: دوخة (dūḵa)
Azerbaijani: başgicəllənmə
Bulgarian: замайване (bg) n (zamajvane), замаяност (bg) f (zamajanost)
Catalan: mareig (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 頭暈／头晕 (zh) (tóuyūn), 眩暈／眩晕 (zh) (xuànyùn), 頭昏／头昏 (zh) (tóuhūn)
Czech: závrať (cs) f
Danish: svimmelhed c
Dutch: duizeligheid (nl)
Esperanto: kapturniĝo
Finnish: huimaus (fi)
French: vertige (fr) m, défaillance (fr) f
Georgian: თავბრუსხვევა (tavbrusxveva), თავბრუდასხმა (tavbrudasxma), თავბრუ (tavbru), ბრუ (bru)
German: Schwindel (de) m, Schwindelgefühl (de) n, Schwindelanfall (de) m, Benommenheit (de) f, Benommenheitsgefühl n
Greek: ζαλάδα (el) f (zaláda)
Ancient: ἴλιγξ f (ílinx), ἴλιγγος m (ílingos)
Hausa: juwa
Hungarian: szédülés (hu)
Irish: meadhrán m, mearbhlán m (Ulster)
Italian: stordimento (it) m, stornimento m, giramento di testa m
Japanese: 目眩 (ja) (めまい, memai), くらくら (ja) (kurakura) (mimetic)
Kazakh: бас айналу (bas ainalu)
Ladino:
Hebrew: שאשיאו m

Latin: shasheo m
Latin: vertīgō m
Maori: pōnitiniti, puano (due to height)
Navajo: ił náhodééyá, ił náhodighááh
Norwegian:
Bokmål: svimmelhet (no) m or f
Ottoman Turkish: طولاب (dolab)
Persian: گیجی (fa) (giji)
Polish: zawroty głowy (pl) m pl
Portuguese: tontura (pt) f, vertigem (pt) f
Russian: головокруже́ние (ru) n (golovokružénije)
Serbo-Croatian: omaglica (sh) f, vrtoglavica (sh)
Spanish: mareo (es) m, vértigo (es) m
Swahili: kizunguzungu (sw)
Swedish: yrsel (sv)
Tocharian B: waipalau
Turkish: baş dönmesi (tr)
Ukrainian: запаморочення (голови) (zapamoročennja (holovy))
Vietnamese: chóng mặt