different between uneasiness vs queasy

English

Etymology

From uneasy +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?i?zin?s/
• Hyphenation: un?easi?ness

Noun

uneasiness (countable and uncountable, plural uneasinesses)

1. The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
2. An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
   • 1860, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

     Finding that the afternoon coach was gone, and finding that his uneasiness grew into positive alarm, as obstacles came in his way, he resolved to follow in a post-chaise.

Synonyms

• (being nervous): disease (dis-ease), unease
• (anxiety): see Thesaurus:fear

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• queazy

Etymology

From Middle English coysy, possibly from Old Norse kveisa (“boil”) ( > Norwegian kveise/kvise), perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman queisier, from Old French coisier (“to wound, hurt, make uneasy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwi?.zi/
• Rhymes: -i?zi

Adjective

queasy (comparative queasier, superlative queasiest)

1. Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
   • 1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press (?ISBN), page 75:

     She was in the middle of a gigantic breakfast of coffee and piles of toast, eggs and bacon and a tall glass of milk. It made him queasy to see all that food.

2. Easily troubled; squeamish.

Derived terms

• queasily
• queasiness

Translations

See also

• nauseous
• nauseated

Anagrams

• Quayes