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giddiness noun [ ˈɡɪdɪnəs ]

• a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger; dizziness.
• "symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and giddiness"
Similar: dizziness, light-headedness, loss of balance/equilibrium, spinning/swimming of the head, faintness, weakness at the knees, unsteadiness, shakiness, wobbliness, mirligoes, dwalm, wooziness, legs like jelly, rubbery legs, megrim, sturdy, scotoma, turnsick, vertiginousness,
Opposite: steadiness,
• a state of excitable frivolity.
• "the fans can be forgiven their giddiness"


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