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spacesickness

spacesickness is the alternative form of space sickness.

Meaning of space sickness

Noun

space sickness (uncountable)

  1. motion sickness caused by the weightlessness of space flight

Origin of spacesickness

From space + sickness. By analogy with seasickness and airsickness.

Questions about spacesickness

What is spacesickness the alternative form of?
Spacesickness is the alternative form of space sickness.

Words near spacesickness in the dictionary

  1. spaceship
  2. Spaceship Earth
  3. spaceshiplike
  4. spaceships
  5. spacesick
  6. spacesickness
  7. spaceside
  8. spacesuit
  9. spacesuited
  10. spacesuits
  11. spacesynth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spacesickness (page history and authors); space sickness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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