Vertigo meaning

Vertigo meaning explained using an image

Noun: vertigo

Pronunciation: (vur-ti,gow)

Vertigo Meaning: A feeling that you are about to fall. A feeling of dizziness caused especially by being in a very high place.

Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness, wooziness.

Quotations: Alix Olson – I think U.S. citizens are trained at a young age to fully inhale the system, the rhetoric and ideologies surrounding democracy, capitalism, religion, family life.If the wizard is exposed, and we realize we have been lied to, it’s frightening, like political vertigo or instantaneous sobriety. After all, once you have seen the light, there’s no going back and, at that point, whether you like it or not, you are accountable to truth and responsible for creating change.

Peter Boockvar – The market appeared to have had a case of vertigo. We have had a big rally in recent weeks and it seemed that the theme of buying stocks because its the end of the year has played itself out.

Chris Potter – I didn’t know what was going on. I was just very dizzy, and for about a year, I had these intermittent attacks of vertigo. I continued to work, and it was extremely stressful, not to know if you were going to be able to stand up in the morning, much less get on two planes and a train for a concert.

Samuel Beckett – I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Ogden Nash – And one of his partners asked ”Has he vertigo?” and the other glanced out and down and said ”Oh no, only about ten feet more.”

Sample sentences:

1. Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
2. When it first struck me I was flat on my back. I had vertigo, I was dizzy, I could hardly get out of bed.
3. He told me on 18 that when we got to No. 16 he looked down and saw the water and his head started spinning. He had vertigo or something.
4. I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.
5. To say that Richard Mayhew was not very good at heights would be perfectly accurate, but would fail to give the full picture; it would be like describing the planet Jupiter as bigger than a duck. Richard hated clifftops, and high buildings; somewhere not far inside of him was the fear – the start, utter, silently screaming terror – that if he got too close to the edge, then something would take over, and he would find himself walking to the edge of a clifftop and then he would just step off into space. It was as if he could not entirely trust himself, and that scared Richard more than the simple fear of falling ever could. So he called it vertigo, and hated it and himself, and kept away from high places.
6. She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo.
7. She gave him the most astonishing vertigo. He should have hated it.But he didn’t.
8. What is happening with her? And this is the answer I find: She is overcome by vertigo. But what is vertigo? I look for a definition and I say: “A heady, insuperable longing to fall.” But immediately I correct myself, I sharpen the definition: Vertigo is “the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.
9. I’m electric with vertigo, even though I’m on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
10. I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It’s like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.