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Syncope vs Vertigo - What's the difference?

syncope | vertigo |

As nouns the difference between syncope and vertigo

is that syncope is a loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon while vertigo is a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.

syncope

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
  • * 1973 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
  • the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars.
  • (prosody, phonology) The absence of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster.
  • A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
  • Synonyms

    * (swoon) faint, fainting

    Hypernyms

    * (prosody) metaplasm

    Derived terms

    * presyncope

    vertigo

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
  • A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
  • The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
  • Synonyms

    * dizziness * giddiness

    Derived terms

    * vertiginous ----