DISQUIETUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disquietude mean? 

• DISQUIETUDE (noun)
  The noun DISQUIETUDE has 1 sense:

1. feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

  Familiarity information: DISQUIETUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISQUIETUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

disquietude; edginess; inquietude; uneasiness

Hypernyms ("disquietude" is a kind of...):

anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disquietude"):

willies (feelings of uneasiness)

 Context examples 

I might have fallen without a struggle for my life had not a sudden disquietude seized upon me and made me turn my head.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The disquietude of his air, the somewhat apprehensive impatience of his manner, surprised me: but I proceeded.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The lawyer stood awhile when Mr. Hyde had left him, the picture of disquietude.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mrs. March glanced at Jo as she spoke, but the face opposite seemed quite unconscious of any secret disquietude but Beth's, and after sewing thoughtfully for a minute, Jo said, I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)