restlessness

restlessness
Synonyms and related words:
Faustianism, activity, actuation, ado, agitation, ailment, alertness, all-night vigil, anxiety, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, breathless impatience, brouhaha, burst, bustle, capriciousness, chafing, churn, cold comfort, commotion, consciousness, conturbation, desultoriness, deviability, didder, disappointment, discomposure, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disgruntlement, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, disturbance, dithers, divine discontent, dynamics, eagerness, ebullition, eccentricity, embroilment, envy, erraticism, excitement, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fickleness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, flap, flightiness, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, foment, freakishness, fretfulness, fretting, fume, fuss, fussiness, going, haste, heaving, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ill humor, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy, inquietude, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency, instability, irregularity, jitters, jumpiness, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lather, lidless vigil, maelstrom, malaise, mercuriality, mobilization, moil, moodiness, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, palpitation, panting, peevishness, perturbation, petulance, pitapat, pitter-patter, pother, quaking, quaver, quavering, querulousness, quiver, quivering, rebelliousness, resentment, restiveness, roil, rout, row, running, scramble, seethe, seething, sentience, shakes, shaking, shiftiness, shiver, shivers, shudder, sleeplessness, sourness, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, stirring, sulkiness, sweat, swirl, tense readiness, throb, throbbing, to-do, tossing and turning, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, uncertainty, undependability, unease, uneasiness, unfixedness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpatientness, unpleasure, unpredictability, unquiet, unquietness, unreliability, unrest, unsatisfaction, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, upset, variability, variation, variety, velocity, vexation of spirit, vigil, vortex, wake, wakefulness, wantonness, waywardness, whimsicality, whirl

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  • restlessness — index commotion, diligence (perseverance), disturbance, outburst, trepidation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • restlessness — [n] constant motion; discontent activity, agitation, ailment, ants*, antsiness*, anxiety, bustle, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, edginess, excitability, ferment, fitfulness, fretfulness, hurry, inconstancy, inquietude, insomnia, instability …   New thesaurus

  • restlessness — noun 1. the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active (Freq. 1) the restlessness of the wind • Derivationally related forms: ↑restless • Hypernyms: ↑mobility 2. inability to rest or relax or be still • Syn …   Useful english dictionary

  • restlessness — noun The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable. She sat and fidgeted out of restlessness as she waited. See Also: rest, restlessly …   Wiktionary

  • restlessness — restless ► ADJECTIVE 1) unable to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom. 2) offering no physical or emotional rest: a restless night. DERIVATIVES restlessly adverb restlessness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • Restlessness — Restless Rest less, a. [AS. restle[ a]s.] 1. Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child. Chaucer. Restless revolution day by day. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • restlessness — noun see restless …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • restlessness — See restlessly. * * * …   Universalium

  • restlessness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. uneasiness, disquiet, fidgetiness, excitability; see anxiety , excitement , uneasiness , unrest 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An uneasy or nervous state: disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, restiveness, unease,… …   English dictionary for students

  • restlessness — rest·less·ness || restlɪsnɪs n. inability to remain still; nervousness, uneasiness; state of lacking repose; state of being constantly in motion …   English contemporary dictionary

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