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When your inner ear files a complaint and the room obliges by spinning.
means A whirling, off-balance sensation that makes standing upright feel like a negotiation.
from From Old English dysig, meaning foolish or stupid — for centuries dizzy described a fool, not a wobble; the spinning-head sense only took over later, as if the brain quietly redefined its own malfunction.
Inner earFluid-filled canals track motion and betray you.
Old meaningOnce meant foolish, not light-headed.
Vertigo cousinVertigo adds the illusion of actual spinning.