Inquietude
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Inquietude is a noun meaning A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
Meaning
A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
Example Sentences
Yet, I confess, my frankness has involved me in many after thoughts and inquietudes; inquietudes, which all my reasoning is, at times, insufficient to allay.
Even as he spoke, steps were heard near the apartment; and while the eyes of both were turned with inquietude on the expected intruder, Lord Lovel entered: […]
The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been—that had been—hard for him to bear.
Word Forms
- inquietudes
Synonyms for inquietude
Depending on context, synonyms include disquietude, uneasiness, edginess.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include uneasiness, disquietude, edginess, unquietude, unquietness, disquietment.
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