Vertigo vs. Vertiginous — What's the Difference?

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.

Extremely high or steep

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.

Turning about an axis; revolving or whirling.

The sensation of dizziness.

Affected by vertigo; dizzy.

An instance of such a sensation.

Tending to produce vertigo

A confused, disoriented state of mind.

Inclined to change quickly; unstable.

A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.

Having an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards.

A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.

(pharmaceutical effect) Inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo, dizziness or of whirling.

The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.

Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).

A snail of the genus Vertigo.

Revolving; rotating; rotatory.

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.

Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, a vertiginous motion.

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.

Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.

A reeling sensation; feeling about to fall

Having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling;