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   vertiginous

   /vəːˈtɪdʒɪnəs/

   adjective

   • 1. extremely high or steep: "vertiginous drops to the valleys below"
   • ▪ relating to or affected by vertigo.

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Latin vertiginosus, from vertigo ‘whirling about’ (see vertigo).

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   • 1. vertiginously adverb

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   What does vertiginous mean?

   • This Tarantula-dance of repetitions and vertiginous argumentation in circulo, begun in imposture and self-consummated in madness! Music was become vertiginous; a mad vortex, wherein whirled mad atoms, madly embracing. Vertiginous definition: whirling; spinning; rotary. See examples of VERTIGINOUS used in a sentence.

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   What does vertigo mean?

   • 1. whirling; spinning; rotary. 2. affected with vertigo. 3. liable or threatening to cause vertigo: a vertiginous climb. 4. apt to change quickly; unstable. ver•tig′i•nous•ness, n.

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   What is the difference between vertiginous and Vertigo?

   • "Vertiginous," from the Latin vertiginosus, is the adjective form of "vertigo," which in Latin means a turning or whirling action. Both words descend from the Latin verb vertere, meaning "to turn." ("Vertiginous" and "vertigo" are just two of an almost dizzying array of "vertere" offspring, from "adverse" to "vortex.")

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   What is a vertiginous motion?

   • In the trauma of being divided, there is, it seems to me, a vertiginous motion: the part (the body; the tooth) is momentarily reframed as the whole. A vertiginous faintness brought him half tumbling and half rolling back into his chair, wheezing and moist with sweat. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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   Vertiginous means characterized by or suffering from vertigo or dizziness, or inclined to frequent and often pointless change. Learn the etymology, synonyms, examples, and word history of vertiginous from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   Vertiginous means causing or experiencing the feeling that everything is spinning around. Learn more about this formal adjective, its synonyms, and how to use it in sentences from various sources.

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   Vertiginous means causing or experiencing the feeling that everything is spinning around. Learn more about this formal adjective, its synonyms and how to use it in sentences from various sources.

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   To be vertiginous is to be dizzy and woozy. It's a disorienting feeling. "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges. In this story truly unlike any other, Borges plays with years of philosophical and scientific argument to explore the limits of knowledge, the gaps in our understanding.

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   Vertiginous means whirling, spinning, rotary, or causing dizziness. It can also mean unstable or changeable. See the origin, derived forms, and usage examples of vertiginous.

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   Vertiginous means turning about an axis, revolving or whirling, or producing dizziness or vertigo. Find the origin, pronunciation, and translations of vertiginous in English and Spanish.

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