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English
Etymology
From Middle English disynes, duysenes, from Old English dysiġnes (“dizziness, folly, foolishness, blasphemy”), equivalent to dizzy + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
dizziness (countable and uncountable, plural dizzinesses)
- The state of being dizzy; the sensation of instability.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Translations
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
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See also
Further reading
- “dizziness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “dizziness”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
