Nauseousness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nauseous \Nau"seous\ (?; 277), a. [L. nauseosus.]
     1. Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome;
        disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or
        medicine.
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     2. Feeling nausea; as, nauseous from the effects of
        chemotherapy.
        [PJC] -- {Nau"seous*ly}, adv. -- {Nau"seous*ness}, n.
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              The nauseousness of such company disgusts a
              reasonable man.                       --Dryden.
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