Thesaurus: qualm

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1. n. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
2. n. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.
3. n. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.
4. n. A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.
5. n. uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety)
6. n. a mild state of nausea
7. 1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. [Obs.] thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [dead]. Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked Roscommon. 4. A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. Dryden.
8. n:100 n uneasiness about the fitness of an action n a mild state of nausea