Synonyms for biliousness
noun sickness in stomach; revulsionAntonyms for biliousness
Word Origin & History
1540s, "pertaining to bile, biliary," from French bilieux, from Latin biliosus "pertaining to bile," from bilis (see bile). Meaning "wrathful, peevish, ill-tempered" (as people afflicted with an excess of bile were believed to be) is attested from 1560s. This is the main modern sense in English and French; the more literal meaning being taken up by biliary. Related: Biliousness.
Example Sentences forbiliousness
There are children with whom eggs do not agree; these children are disposed to "biliousness."
Hot baths are an excellent remedy for nausea or biliousness.
Fats, when freely used, give rise to indigestion and 'biliousness.'
There is more yellow in life from biliousness, than from the state of the atmosphere.
It is of special service in dyspepsia, biliousness, rheumatism, etc.
The worse enemy of technic is biliousness, and biliousness is sure to follow bad beer.
There are some people, and not a few, who cannot take milk without suffering from indigestion or biliousness.
When taken in this form it certainly causes indigestion as well as biliousness.
These precautions will often serve to avoid the biliousness which so frequently spoils the first few days of the holiday.
A color mixer in a tile works began after ten years to suffer from cramps in the stomach, nausea and biliousness.