carsickness

carsickness
/kahr"sik'nis/, n.
a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the car in which one is traveling. Cf. motion sickness.
[1905-10; CARSICK + -NESS]

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