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Nausea

Psychology
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Feeling of sickness or revulsion; existential disgust with the world.

Detailed Definition
Nausea in poetry appears as visceral recoil—foul tastes, putrid smells, dizziness. It conveys philosophical alienation, as in Sartre's concept, or physical distress. Poets use nausea to depict trauma, moral outrage, or bodily unease, often in confrontational or surreal verse. It challenges aesthetic pleasure, forcing readers to face the abject. Nausea can be a prelude to transformation or a symptom of hopelessness, grounding abstract despair in gut-level sensation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Nausea in Charles Baudelaire's "The Monster" where nausea is a response to the monstrous; In T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," nausea is a response to spiritual aridity; In Jean-Paul Sartre's influence on poetry, nausea is existential; In contemporary poetry, nausea is often visceral; In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," nausea is a response to social anxiety; In confessional poetry, nausea is a symptom of trauma.
Additional Notes
Nausea in poetry appears as visceral recoil—foul tastes, putrid smells, dizziness—conveying philosophical alienation or physical distress. In teaching, distinguish nausea from disgust: nausea is a sickening feeling, while disgust is revulsion. Poets use nausea to depict trauma, moral outrage, or bodily unease, often in confrontational or surreal verse. It challenges aesthetic pleasure, forcing readers to face the abject. Students should examine how poets use sensory overload, imagery of rot or sickness, and jarring rhythms to convey nausea's gut-level disturbance.
Also Known As
Revulsion disgust sickness queasiness loathing wamble
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