the nausea that people can experience in the gravity-free environment of space
space sickness in American English
noun
Pathology
a complex of symptoms including nausea, lethargy, headache, and sweating, occurring among astronauts under conditions of weightlessness
Word origin
[1950–55]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Common Market, International Gothic, conflict of interest, drip-dry, point-of-sale
Examples of 'space sickness' in a sentence
space sickness
There is also the problem of 'space adaptation syndrome', or space sickness.