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What does vertigo mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word vertigo? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
  2. A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
  3. The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
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It's hard to fight off the sense of vertigo as the ground drops away on takeoff and mountains rush beneath your feet during low-level flying.
The steady climb and particularly the final stairway to the fire lookout might give shaky legs to those with vertigo.
Watching a video of a roller coaster ride will never bring on the same sense of vertigo as the real deal.
In place of moral vertigo what we get, especially in West's fine performance, is a mortified awareness of the wages of sin.
Someone I know can't go to the circus, because watching the aerialists gives her vertigo.
The visitor should experience a little vertigo, because something is going on that is beyond his ken.

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