![]() ![]() "Nauseated" is actually a form of a verb.Now, as far as the difference between "nauseated" and "nauseous" goes, let's start with the fact that they're two different parts of speech.First of all, all those "nausea" words originally come from a very similar Latin root word which means "sea sick." That seemed pretty obvious once I read it, but I doubt that would have occurred to me.(Photo from British Columbia Coast of Canada Weather) ![]() I'll try to keep the nausea to a minimum. Get ready for a little etymology whiplash. Maybe it's because I don't know why you're supposed to say "nauseated" instead. This example is interesting in that it shows the use of nauseated in the verbal sense and nauseous, meaning nauseated, in the adjectival.īut I still think that, although several of my patients are or become nauseated, sometimes because of drugs that I give them, very few of them are really nauseous.Do you know when it's appropriate to use the word "nauseous" and when to use "nauseated"? I hear people say sentences like, "Whoo, I'm nauseous" so often, my knee-jerk response is to say that that's correct.īut every once in a while I run across somebody who says rather peevishly that you're not supposed to say you're "nauseous," dummy, you're supposed to say you're "nauseated." But I usually forget this and "nauseous" is what most often slips out - no pun intended. Those subjects who felt nauseous showed a tachycardia and forearm vasodilatation” ( Cardiovascular Research 1982 16: 610-2 ). In one paper both were used: “The procedure had no significant effect on cardiovascular variables in control subjects or in subjects who were exposed to vestibular stimulation but who were not nauseated by it. Searching PubMed for examples of nauseous and nauseated in the titles and abstracts of bioscience publications, I have found only seven instances of nauseous in UK publications, compared with 51 worldwide, and 97 instances of nauseated worldwide. Nevertheless, by 1989 Webster's Dictionary of English Usage had gathered a large amount of evidence of the widespread use of nauseous to mean nauseated: “Any handbook that tells you that nauseous cannot mean `nauseated' is out of touch with the contemporary language.” To call oneself nauseous, except in self-depreciation, is to ignore the point of view of the word.” And Strunk and White in The Elements of Style (3rd edition, 1979) wrote: “Do not say `I feel nauseous', unless you are sure you have that effect on others.” For example, Wilson Follett, in his Modern American Usage (1966), wrote: “When we have two adjectives, nauseous and nauseated, it should be clear that the first applies to the substance that causes the state named in the second. On the other hand, some US sources have condemned the failure to observe the original distinction between nauseous and nauseated. According to Burchfield, in British English nauseated means feeling sick and nauseous means disgusting, but in American English nauseous has tended to replace nauseated, while nauseating has replaced nauseous. ), in which he distinguished between British English and American English usages. The distinction between nauseous and nauseated was not discussed by Fowler in his Modern English Usage (1926), nor by Ernest Gowers in his revision of Fowler (1965), but it was discussed in Bob Burchfield's revision (1996 see also BMJĢ000 320: 357. This distinction was not made in Webster's second ( Webster's New International Dictionary), so presumably the new meaning arose at some time between 19. Causing or such as might be expected to cause nausea: sickening, loathsome, disgusting. Affected with or inclined to nausea: nauseated. However, Webster's Third International Dictionary (1961) gave two different meanings of nauseous: 1. And that meaning persisted until about the middle of the 20th century. At the same time nauseous was used in its original Latin sense of causing nausea, and therefore smelling or tasting unpleasant and (figuratively) loathsome or disgusting. When nauseous came into English from the Latin it first meant likely to feel sick (that is, squeamish) or fastidious, but that meaning rapidly became obsolete. And, although nauseosus could have meant feeling sick or nauseated, it was actually used to mean causing nausea. Now the suffixosus in Latin meant full of or rich in. In Latin nauseare meant to make sick nauseated (from the supine form nauseatum) therefore means made to feel sick (verb transitive) or feeling sick (adjective). The word nausea comes from the Greek nausia or nautia, which originally meant seasickness (Greek naus = ship). I am often told that a patient is nauseous, only to find that he or she is actually nauseated, not nauseous at all, or at least not what I mean by nauseous. ![]()
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