Associations to the word «Qualm»

Wiktionary

QUALM, noun. (now chiefly UK dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
QUALM, noun. (now chiefly UK dialectal) A calamity or disaster.
QUALM, noun. A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. [from 16th c.]
QUALM, noun. A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. [from 16th c.]
QUALM, noun. A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now chiefly in negative constructions.) [from 17th c.]

Dictionary definition

QUALM, noun. Uneasiness about the fitness of an action.
QUALM, noun. A mild state of nausea.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats