vertigo
noun
1 vertigo
A reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall.
synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness.
Roget 503:
disordered reason,
disordered intellect;
diseased mind,
unsound mind,
abnormal mind;
derangement,
unsoundness;
psychosis;
neurosis;
cognitive disorder;
affective disorder†.
insanity,
lunacy;
madness
etc.
adj.;
mania,
rabies,
furor,
mental alienation,
aberration;
paranoia,
schizophrenia;
dementation†,
dementia,
demency†;
phrenitis†,
phrensy†,
frenzy,
raving,
incoherence,
wandering,
delirium,
calenture of the brain†;
delusion,
hallucination;
lycanthropy†;
brain storm†.
vertigo,
dizziness,
swimming;
sunstroke,
coup de soleil [Fr.],
siriasis†.
fanaticism,
infatuation,
craze;
oddity,
eccentricity,
twist,
monomania
(caprice)
608;
kleptodipsomania†;
hypochondriasis [Med.]
etc.
(low spirits)
837;
melancholia,
depression,
clinical depression,
severe depression;
hysteria;
amentia†.
screw loose,
tile loose,
slate loose;
bee in one's bonnet,
rats in the upper story.
dotage
etc.
(imbecility)
499.
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Roget 312:
rotation,
revolution,
spinning,
gyration,
turning about an axis,
turning aound an axis,
circulation,
roll;
circumrotation†,
circumvolution,
circumgyration†;
volutation†,
circination†,
turbination†,
pirouette,
convolution.
verticity†,
whir,
whirl,
eddy,
vortex,
whirlpool,
gurge†;
countercurrent;
Maelstrom,
Charybdis;
Ixion.
[rotating air]
cyclone;
tornado,
whirlwind;
dust devil.
[rotation of an automobile]
spin-out.
axis,
axis of rotation,
swivel,
pivot,
pivot point;
axle,
spindle,
pin,
hinge,
pole,
arbor,
bobbin,
mandrel;
axle shaft;
gymbal;
hub,
hub of rotation.
[rotation and translation together]
helix,
helical motion.
[measure of rotation]
angular momentum,
angular velocity;
revolutions per minute,
RPM.
[result of rotation]
centrifugal force;
surge;
vertigo,
dizzy round;
coriolus force.
[things that go around]
carousel,
merry-go-round;
Ferris wheel;
top,
dreidel†,
teetotum;
gyroscope;
turntable,
lazy suzan;
screw,
whirligig,
rollingstone†,
water wheel,
windmill;
wheel,
pulley wheel,
roulette wheel,
potter's wheel,
pinwheel,
gear;
roller;
flywheel;
jack;
caster;
centrifuge,
ultracentrifuge,
bench centrifuge,
refrigerated centrifuge,
gas centrifuge,
microfuge;
drill,
augur,
oil rig;
wagon wheel,
wheel,
tire,
tyre [Brit.].
[Science of rotary motion]
trochilics†.
[person who rotates]
whirling dervish.
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Dutch: vertigo, draaiing, duizeligheid, duizeling, suizeling
Polish: zawroty głowy
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