different between nausea vs squicky

English

Etymology

From Middle English nausea, a borrowing from Latin nausea, from Ancient Greek ?????? (nausía, “sea-sickness”), from ???? (naûs, “ship”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??z??/, /?n??s??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?zi.?/, /?n?si.?/, /?n???/, /?n???/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?n?zi.?/, /?n?si.?/, /?n???/, /?n???/
• Rhymes: -??zi?
• Hyphenation: nau?sea

Noun

nausea (countable and uncountable, plural nauseas or nauseae or nauseæ)

1. A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit.
2. Strong dislike or disgust.
3. Motion sickness.

Derived terms

• nauseate
• nauseous

Translations

Further reading

• nausea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nausea, nausia, from Ancient Greek ?????? (nausía, “seasickness”), from ???? (naûs, “ship”).

Pronunciation

Noun

nausea f (plural nausee)

1. nausea

Derived terms

• nausea mattutina
• nauseabondo / nauseante
• nauseare
• nauseato

Verb

nausea

1. third-person singular present of nauseare
2. second-person singular imperative of nauseare

Latin

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• nausia

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nau?.se.a/, [?näu?s?eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nau?.se.a/, [?n??u?s??]

Noun

nausea f (genitive nauseae); first declension

1. nausea
2. seasickness

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: nausea
• ? Italian: nausea
• ? Portuguese: náusea
• ? Spanish: náusea

Etymology 2

Verb

nause?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of nause?

References

• nausea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nausea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nausea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

squick +? -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?skw?k.i/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Adjective

squicky (comparative squickier, superlative squickiest)

1. (slang) Engendering a feeling of disgust, distaste, nausea or revulsion, but without a judgment regarding the rightness or wrongness of the stimulus.

   She offered to show me the injury, but I find blood rather squicky.

Related terms

• squick

Translations