dizziness

English

Alternative forms

• dizzyness

Etymology

From Middle English disynes, duysenes, from Old English dysiġnes (“dizziness, folly, foolishness, blasphemy”), equivalent to dizzy +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

dizziness (countable and uncountable, plural dizzinesses)

1. The state of being dizzy; the sensation of instability.

Synonyms

• giddiness
• light-headedness
• vertigo

Hyponyms

• scotomy

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

See also

• lightheadedness
• faintness

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.