What's the difference between queasy and uneasiness?

Queasy


Definition:

  • (a.) Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
  • (a.) Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish.

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.

Uneasiness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being uneasy; restlessness; disquietude; anxiety.
  • (n.) The quality of making uneasy; discomfort; as, the uneasiness of the road.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
  • (2) I appreciate things like that.” News about things like overreach in government surveillance make her uneasy but she said her tendency would be to shrug and say: “As long as I have no plans to threaten the national security, I don’t really have any reason to worry.” “In term of health privacy though, once we start thinking about health and our families, I think it’s very easy to realize that this is the most sensitive personal information about us,” she said.
  • (3) Sometimes the public’s legitimate fears are exposed: in Colombia there’s no doubt the public felt uneasy about forgiving Farc for its bloody violence.
  • (4) William’s trip will put a spotlight on his father’s uneasy relationship with China and raise questions about why Charles has yet to make an official visit to the country.
  • (5) In short, Bamako remains uneasy, and the "sacred union" of the last few days can only be temporary.
  • (6) As MPs return from their summer holidays, Conservative rebellions are looming over rising rail fares, rising fuel duty and, as we report today, Tory councillors are growing increasingly uneasy over planned cuts in council tax relief which they say will hit low earners disproportionately hard in April.
  • (7) People wander this disconcerting garden a long time, uneasy and reflective.
  • (8) With a few striking exceptions, such as William Dalrymple and Philip Hensher , contemporary writers have become wary of engaging with it in all its complicated, uneasy-making richness.
  • (9) At the same time, approximately one-third were aware of reporting issues that needed to be addressed, including staff unfamiliarity with the regulations, concerns of confidentiality, and uneasiness about reporting in general.
  • (10) But Cameron said he felt uneasy that in the film Assange appears to be more concerned about the fate of people who leaked documents to WikiLeaks – an apparent reference to Chelsea Manning – rather than people whose security may have been jeopardised by the leaks.
  • (11) Sorry, I mean it would be the department of trade.” She gives a shrill, uneasy laugh.
  • (12) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
  • (13) We are still in the midst of the uneasy period of phoney war before the cuts actually bite, but we now know what's coming: the deepest and quickest reductions in public spending since the 1920s – which, according to an under-reported quote from David Cameron , will not be reversed, even when our economic circumstances improve (2 August, at an event in Birmingham: "Should we cut things now and go back later and try and restore them later?
  • (14) This was an evident need since up to now each school applied a different criterion to qualify its graduates; the resulting disparity in the scores with which graduates applied for the National calls in postgraduate training programs, general practice positions and the like, elicited uneasiness both among graduates and academic staff.
  • (15) We insist upon the priority of the relationship doctor-patient in the case of a chronicle affection, which is less uneasy for some and shameful for a great many.
  • (16) Turkish police appeared uneasy at the size of the crowd gathered near a fragile border fence and fired teargas grenades to disperse them, adding the crack of smaller explosions to the rumbling of the Isis advance.
  • (17) Key party members stressed they had no master plan in response to the vote, but said it could not be ignored and argued many Conservatives were uneasy about the reforms.
  • (18) Browne said he was "instinctively uneasy" about restricting religious freedoms, but he added there may be a case to act to protect girls who were too young to decide for themselves whether they wished to wear the veil or not.
  • (19) If you genuinely do distrust industrial production, if you do believe that a mass, mechanised civilisation is incompatible in some way with democracy, post-fossil fuel economy or a humane society in general – and such opinions are not rare – then you necessarily have to own up to the critique, something that the guiltily uneasy combination of hay bales and laptops found at many protest camps can make especially uncomfortable.
  • (20) In certain telling ways the response of the nation’s leaders to the recent market crash is emblematic of a much larger dilemma – one that sits right at the heart of China’s uneasy fusion of communism and free-market economics, a system with little precedent and no operating manual.