vertigo

A feeling that you or everything around you is spinning, making it hard to keep your balance.

• She suffers from vertigo.
• An attack of vertigo made him sit down.
• His vertigo became worse whenever he stood up.

Similar words: dizziness

Common phrases: suffer from vertigo, attack of vertigo, severe vertigo

A confused, unsettled feeling caused by thoughts, events, or changes that seem too much to understand.

• The sudden freedom gave her a strange mental vertigo.
• He felt emotional vertigo as his familiar world disappeared.
• The endless possibilities produced a vertigo of the mind.

Similar words: disorientation, bewilderment

Common phrases: mental vertigo, emotional vertigo, vertigo of possibilities

The action of turning round and round very quickly.

• The wheel's vertigo blurred its painted markings.
• The dance ended in a vertigo of movement.
• Dust rose in the vertigo of the turning blades.

Similar words: rotation, whirling

Common phrases: rapid vertigo, vertigo of motion, vertigo of wheels

A tiny land snail belonging to a group with small, upright shells.

• A tiny vertigo clung to the leaf.
• The researcher examined a vertigo under a microscope.
• This wetland provides a habitat for several vertigos.

Common phrases: tiny vertigo, vertigo snail, vertigo shell