MORNING SICKNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morning sickness mean? 

• MORNING SICKNESS (noun)
  The noun MORNING SICKNESS has 1 sense:

1. nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy

  Familiarity information: MORNING SICKNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORNING SICKNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("morning sickness" is a kind of...):

nausea; sickness (the state that precedes vomiting)

Holonyms ("morning sickness" is a part of...):

gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)

 Context examples 

These include morning sickness during pregnancy, infections, migraine headaches, motion sickness, food poisoning, cancer chemotherapy or other medicines.

(Nausea and Vomiting, NIH)