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ˈnauseousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
†1. A feeling of nausea; squeamishness. Obs. (common in 17th c.)
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 306 Accompanied with crude nauseousnesse of the stomach. 1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 143 The seeing of any filthy thing causeth nauseousness. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Malt liquor, Nauseousness at the stomach.
†b. fig. Also const. of (the thing disliked). Obs.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 9 If thou shalt..tell me, that..I cause nauciousnesse in this my Discourse. 1673O. Walker Educ. (1677) 298 To man alone..hath nature given a nauseousness of the present. 1693Shadwell Volunteers i. i, Affected to nauseousness.
2. The quality of being nauseous.
c1645Howell Lett. (1892) II. 662 They use to stir the humours so violently by their nauseousness. 1687Settle Refl. Dryden 6 Which.., besides the nauseousness of the Simile, is no true Position. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 148 The Dirt, Nauseousness, and Stench almost every where intolerable. 1821–30Ld. Cockburn Mem. i. (1856) 38 A faint conception of their nauseousness may be formed from the following examples. 1882‘Ouida’ Maremma I. 177 The nauseousness of the atmosphere of the seashore in Maremma. |