dizziness

English

Alternative forms

dizzyness

Etymology

dizzy +‎ -ness

Noun

dizziness (countable and uncountable, plural dizzinesses)

The state of being dizzy; the sensation of instability.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

scotomy

Translations

state of being dizzy

Albanian: marramendje (sq)
Bulgarian: замайване (bg) n (zamajvane), замаяност (bg) f (zamajanost)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 頭暈 (zh), 头晕 (zh) (tóuyūn), 眩暈 (zh), 眩晕 (zh) (xuànyùn), 頭昏 (zh), 头昏 (zh) (tóuhūn)
Czech: závrať f
Dutch: duizeligheid (nl)
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: ἴλιγγος m (ílingos)
Hausa: juwa
Italian: stordimento m, stornimento m
Japanese: 目眩 (めまい, memai), くらくら (ja) (kurakura) (mimetic)

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
Persian: گیجی‎ (fa) (giji)
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)

See also

Further reading

dizziness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
dizziness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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