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–adverb

to a sickening or disgusting degree.

[Origin: < L: lit., to seasickness

]

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adv. To a disgusting or ridiculous degree; to the point of nausea.

[Latin ad, to + nauseam, accusative of nausea, sickness.]

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ad nauseam

"to a sickening extent," 1616, from L., lit. "to sickness."

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ad nauseam
adverb
to a sickening extent; "he played the song ad nauseam"

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ad nauseam [(ad naw-zee-uhm)]

To go on endlessly; literally, to continue “to seasickness”: “The candidate told us the details of how he overcame his childhood problems ad nauseam.”

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