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Squeamishness   /skwˈimɪʃnəs/   Listen
Squeamishness

noun
1.
A mild state of nausea.  Synonyms: qualm, queasiness.
2.
The trait of being excessively fastidious and easily shocked.  "He refused to allow squeamishness to deter him from his duty"





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"Squeamishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... playhouse had happened, I had to take my breakfast in my bed, a thing very uncommon to me, being generally up by cock-craw, except on Sunday mornings whiles, when each one, according to the bidding of the Fourth Commandment, has a license to do as he likes; having a desperate sore head, and a squeamishness at the stomach, occasioned, I jealouse in a great measure, from what Mr Glen and me had discussed at Widow Grassie's, in the shape of warm toddy, over our cracks concerning what is called the agricultural and manufacturing ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir


Words linked to "Squeamishness" :   nausea, fastidiousness, sickness, squeamish


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