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horizontigo 

The sensation of motion experienced when stopped in your vehicle and not really paying attention (such as when looking at your phone while stopped at a red light) and out of the corner of your eye you see the car next to you pull forward or backward, giving you the false impression that your car is rolling. This is often triggers a brief feeling of panic and reflexive brake action until you realize what is actually going on.
Play on words from vertigo.
"OMG I thought the car was rolling forward, but it was just the car next to us backing out of their parking space. I hate that feeling of horizontigo."
horizontigo by AnomalyDetected December 7, 2012
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horizontigo 

similar to vertigo, a dizzy or disorienting state induced by moving quickly back and forth horizontally, as in a front car seat while driving
Driver: Dude, your freakin' me out by moving your seat like that!
Shotgun Passenger: Yeah, I'm gettin' major horizontigo!
horizontigo by Dragonfly7 August 24, 2008

horizontigo

Horizontigo is the uncommon adjective for 'horizontal vertigo.'

If vertigo is associated with spinning or forward/backward swaying (particularly when looking down from a great height) then horizontigo can be differentiated for side-to-side swaying and a sense that objects (i.e. cars) are moving but remaining at eye level.

Horizontigo may make you move in such a way that makes you feel like a drunkard.

Dr Google isn't the best at fixing this, nor am I (the author) but what I do recommend is that you try to avoid heartburn while feeling this. Gaviscon or the unfortunate 1/2tsp bicarb soda + a cup of water combination may help. Don't push yourself when you feel this and most importantly, DO NOT DRIVE! Horizontigo comes in bouts.
I'm so sure that I'm not ill, but today I went for a walk and kept getting horizontigo. I know I'm not iron deficient, what the helly is going on?
horizontigo by ZB47 April 15, 2026

Horizontical 

1. Being in a horizontal and vertical state.

2. Another way to say Diagonal or if you have a speech impediment that makes you combine words.
He swung his sword around horizonticaly above his head.

I scored in Connect four Horizonticaly
Horizontical by Toasty1 October 12, 2009

horizontology 

The act of being horizontal.
Horizontology is instead of sitting on a couch, lying on a couch.
horizontology by Mike Boyd January 3, 2006

Horizontical 

The new word for horizontal when creating cross-sections.
When slicing the rectangular prism with a horizontical slice, identify the shape of the cross-section
Horizontical by MsD7thMath May 15, 2019

Horizontical 

An Idiotic phrase from a parasite meaning not gay and flat
This is a horizontical line.
Horizontical by Neutralice April 6, 2022
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