UNREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unrest mean? 

• UNREST (noun)
  The noun UNREST has 2 senses:

1. a state of agitation or turbulent change or development

2. a feeling of restless agitation

  Familiarity information: UNREST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNREST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of agitation or turbulent change or development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

agitation; ferment; fermentation; tempestuousness; unrest

Context example:

social unrest

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

Sturm und Drang; turbulence; upheaval (a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A feeling of restless agitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

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

agitation (the feeling of being agitated; not calm)

 Context examples 

The many books he read but served to whet his unrest.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I began, too, to think that my imaginings were of the night, and the gloom, and the unrest that I have gone through, and all the terrible anxiety.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That aspect of consciousness devoted to affect or feeling; a strong feeling, aroused mental state, or intense state of drive or unrest directed toward a definite object, with physiological, somatic, and behavioral components.

(Emotion, NCI Thesaurus)

It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god's presence.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It filled him with a great unrest and strange desires.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Hans Nelson, immigrant, Swede by birth and carpenter by occupation, had in him that Teutonic unrest that drives the race ever westward on its great adventure.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Possibly I recited with a certain joyous lilt which was my own, for—his memory was good, and at a second rendering, very often the first, he made a quatrain his own—he recited the same lines and invested them with an unrest and passionate revolt that was well-nigh convincing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And now his unrest had become sharp and painful, and he knew at last, clearly and definitely, that it was beauty, and intellect, and love that he must have.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

One Eye moved impatiently beside her; her unrest came back upon her, and she knew again her pressing need to find the thing for which she searched.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This was the pride of Dave as wheel-dog, of Sol-leks as he pulled with all his strength; the pride that laid hold of them at break of camp, transforming them from sour and sullen brutes into straining, eager, ambitious creatures; the pride that spurred them on all day and dropped them at pitch of camp at night, letting them fall back into gloomy unrest and uncontent.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)