Something that’s “vertiginous” (ver-TIJ-uh-nus) – from the Latin – is (1) unstable, or (2) threatening to cause the dizzying sensation of vertigo.
Example (as used by Will Blythe in a New York Times review of What Can I Do When Everything’s on Fire by Antonio Lobo Antunes): “There are novels out there as vertiginous as the dread K2, steep with degrees of difficulty that put readers into the same position as mountaineers staring at a terrifying traverse.”
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