Vertigo vs. Vertiginous
Vertigonoun
A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
Vertiginousadjective
Having an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards.
Vertigonoun
A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
Vertiginousadjective
Inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo, dizziness or of whirling.
Vertigonoun
The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
Vertiginousadjective
Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).
Vertigonoun
Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.
Vertiginousadjective
Revolving; rotating; rotatory.
Vertigonoun
Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.
Vertiginousadjective
Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, a vertiginous motion.
âSome vertiginous whirl of fortune.â;
Vertigonoun
a reeling sensation; feeling about to fall
Vertiginousadjective
Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
âThey [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven.â;
Vertigonoun
a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height, or caused by disease affecting the inner ear or the vestibular nerve; giddiness.
Vertiginousadjective
having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling;
âhad a dizzy spellâ; âa dizzy pinnacleâ; âhad a headache and felt giddyâ; âa giddy precipiceâ; âfeeling woozy from the blow on his headâ; âa vertiginous climb up the face of the cliffâ;
Vertigo
Vertigo is a condition where a person has the sensation of moving or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement.
Vertiginousadjective
extremely high or steep
âvertiginous drops to the valleys belowâ;
Vertiginousadjective
relating to or affected by vertigo.
