unrest
noun
1 unrest
A state of agitation or turbulent change or development:
— Social unrest.
synonyms: agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness.
Roget 149:
changeableness
etc.
adj.;
mutability,
inconstancy;
versatility,
mobility;
instability,
unstable equilibrium;
vacillation
etc.
(irresolution)
605;
fluctuation,
vicissitude;
alternation
etc.
(oscillation)
314.
restlessness
etc.
adj..
fidgets,
disquiet;
disquietude,
inquietude;
unrest;
agitation
etc.
315.
moon,
Proteus,
chameleon,
quicksilver,
shifting sands,
weathercock,
harlequin,
Cynthia of the minute,
April showers†;
wheel of Fortune;
transientness
etc.
111†.
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Roget 264:
motion,
movement,
move;
going
etc.
v.;
unrest.
stream,
flow,
flux,
run,
course,
stir;
evolution;
kinematics;
telekinesis.
step,
rate,
pace,
tread,
stride,
gait,
port,
footfall,
cadence,
carriage,
velocity,
angular velocity;
clip,
progress,
locomotion;
journey
etc.
266;
voyage
etc.
267;
transit
etc.
270.
restlessness
etc.
(changeableness)
149;
mobility;
movableness,
motive power;
laws of motion;
mobilization.
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Dutch: gisting, onrust
Polish: ferment
2 unrest
A feeling of restless agitation.
Moby thesaurus: activity, actuation, agitation, agony, ailment, anguish, anxiety, anxiousness, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle, churn, commotion, concern, conturbation, didder, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dithers, dynamics, ebullition, embroilment, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, going, heaving, hubbub, hurly-burly, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, maelstrom, malaise, mobilization, moil, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, palpitation, panting, perturbation, pitapat, pitter-patter, quaking, quaver, quavering, quiver, quivering, restiveness, restlessness, roil, rout, row, running, seethe, seething, shakes, shaking, shiver, shivers, shudder, stir, stirring, strife, swirl, throb, throbbing, to-do, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, uneasiness, upset, velocity, worry ... show more.
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