What's the difference between qualm and queasiness?
Qualm
Definition:
(n.) Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
(n.) A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.
(n.) Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.
(n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.
Example Sentences:
(1) A splinter group of the nationalist National Liberation Front of Corsica had made a statement warning extremists that any attack on the island would trigger “a determined response, without any qualms”.
(2) In responding to a reporter's question about French and German qualms, Mr Rumsfeld hinted on Wednesday that Washington would turn to Nato's new members in eastern Europe for support.
(3) The right, in contrast, had no qualms about going all-in.
(4) Israel had few qualms about proliferating nuclear weapons knowhow and materials, giving South Africa's apartheid regime help in developing its own bomb in the 1970s in return for 600 tons of yellowcake.
(5) Like Mark Twain, he was no respecter of the professional qualms of historians, and the one-liners continued to flow.
(6) The children's secretary, Ed Balls, has fewer qualms, telling the Times : "I don't think you could honestly say you wouldn't like to have a go."
(7) Meanwhile Seydoux's co-star appears to have overcome her initial qualms about the film and is currently promoting Blue is the Warmest Colour in the UK press.
(8) You are only the defence minister.’” But two days later, many Egyptians appeared to have fewer qualms: millions turned out to give Sisi his mandate.
(9) North Dakota law enforcement have no qualms about grabbing people and throwing them to the ground,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota tribe member.
(10) Cameron had no qualms about talking about his Ivan's condition.
(11) None of the defendants except Yaroshenko had any qualms accepting their involvement in the global drug trade.
(12) But, he shares my own qualms about Silicon Valley's techno-utopianism.
(13) Han definitely shoots first (and asks questions later) Lucas and fans have debated for decades whether the sardonic space scoundrel was originally intended to shoot bounty hunter Greedo only after the alien fired his blaster first in the Mos Eisley Cantina in 1977’s saga opener A New Hope, but Abrams clearly has no such qualms about showing the elder Solo as a quick-on-the-draw kind of guy.
(14) Bulmer could not be reached for comment, but in a statement he insisted he had no qualms about accepting a fee from the campaign group.
(15) But he has no qualms nailing overall responsibility.
(16) "If I had that many qualms, I would have tried to block the sale.
(17) Tony Blair has swallowed any qualms about declaring his full support for Ed Miliband , saying he agrees with the Labour leader that inequality is the central challenge of the times.
(18) Evidently he had qualms but never spoke out decisively.
(19) I believe in that and I think that makes the whole thing worthwhile.” Robinson said he had no moral qualms about defending Karadžić or others accused of war crimes.
(20) Leicester City fans across the world celebrate a miracle Read more Early on Ranieri took a shine to Danny Drinkwater, who was unable to get into Leicester’s team at the end of last season but finishes this one hoping to go to Euro 2016 with England, and he has had no qualms about overlooking Gokhan Inler, the Switzerland captain who was signed as a replacement for Esteban Cambiasso .
Queasiness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Hulton Archive Precisely how Shields achieves his queasy, waking-state guitar sound has long been the subject of stubbly examination.
(2) Journalists with previous embed experience will feel queasy at reports that Rupert Hamer and his photographer were travelling in a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP), the most advanced of all vehicles designed specifically to protect their passengers from fatal injury or death.
(3) On every page, someone, somehow has replaced every queasy showbiz bon mot with those two common nouns.
(4) And this – this odd feeling you get when you encounter Katrantzou's designs, half-queasy (like her Jewel Tree Dress, the £8,300 piece of "demi-couture" that's based on a Fabergé egg) and half-elated (again, that fabulous Jewel Tree Dress bobbing down a catwalk like someone's brie-affected dream) – this is why we're excited that, with her collection for Topshop hitting stores this week, we'll finally be able to afford a bit ourselves.
(5) I know no critic of Corbyn who isn’t intensely queasy about any move against him any time soon, on both political and democratic grounds.
(6) Despite this queasiness over heavily modified food ( a recent New York Times poll found more than 90% of Americans want GMOs labeled), a new era of so-called “extreme” genetic engineering is already dawning in grocery aisles.
(7) The Paul Flowers scandal has given many of Britain's top institutions reason to feel queasy.
(8) It was not just the tabloid press and the lock 'em up fraternity that felt queasy at the prospect of men who had sexually molested women being given a much more lenient sentence for admitting culpability early on.
(9) But the hard electoral truth is that a party that presents itself as the resistance movement for queasy metropolitan liberals is unlikely ever to be able to form a government (and by the way, Tim Farron got there long before Labour).
(10) Women who used this were regarded with sneaking respect: they were wild enough to have thrown caution to the wind yet sensible enough to reach for the best remedy and brave enough to go through the unpleasant, queasy-making experience.
(11) By the end of February, all was quiet save for global banks routinely updating queasy investors over the tens of billions of dollars they had lost by fuelling the madness we now know as the debt catastrophe.
(12) Both make many of their Lib Dem coalition partners feel queasy.
(13) Incest (Sister), references to rape (Lust U Always), a queasy description of his first sexual partner’s vagina (Schoolyard): before becoming a Jehovah’s Witness, Prince once considered this all fair game in his concerted effort to shock.
(14) Zolpidem, but not triazolam, produced increases in subject ratings of various somatic symptoms (e.g., dizzy, anxious and queasy) and there were 9 days on which subjects vomited after zolpidem, but none after triazolam.
(15) In fact, though the chancellor might be happy in the short term because of the VAT he would harvest, I should be feeling decidedly queasy wondering how I was going to service the debt I had taken on to make the purchase.
(16) He said: “It’s not surprising to me that there are some Republicans who are now a little queasy about the prospect of the impact that repealing Obamacare would have on their own supporters, on people in their own congressional districts, because we know there are people all across the country who benefit from this law, who are protected by this law, whose lives have been saved by this law, and the prospect of taking it away is a question of life or death for some people.” Earnest suggested that Obama would encourage Democrats to focus on aspects of the Affordable Care Act that have bipartisan support.
(17) And when the Italian prime minister contemplates the fate of David Cameron, consigned to political history after his own ill-starred referendum, he must feel distinctly queasy.
(18) My hunch is that Brooks's socialism would make Miliband queasy.
(19) When people – once again not all, but enough – thought of him being president, they checked their gut and it made them queasy .
(20) But to the casual observer, once the giddiness and excitement had died down, it was hard not to feel slightly queasy.