vertiginous
adjective
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It is generally necessary to avoid crowded rooms and the vertiginous influence of the dance, one 19th-century medical work advised. We're not sure what condition this advice was aimed at, but it may well have been "vertigo," a disordered state characterized by whirling dizziness. "Vertiginous," from the Latin vertiginosus, is the adjective form of "vertigo," which in Latin means a turning or whirling action. Both words descend from the Latin verb vertere, meaning "to turn." ("Vertiginous" and "vertigo" are just two of an almost dizzying array of "vertere" offspring, from "adverse" to "vortex.") The "dizzying" sense of "vertiginous" is often used figuratively, as in "vertiginous medical discoveries may drastically change life in the 21st century."
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John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
Anger, moving through multiple levels of fiction and documentary with a vertiginous rapidity, turns a story about process into a new cinematic process in itself.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
The boys were tackling alarmingly vertiginous courses, but Anderson didn’t seem worried.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
In September 2019, a Conference Board survey revealed a vertiginous drop in CEO confidence.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 20 July 2024
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“Vertiginous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vertiginous. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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