UNEASINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uneasiness mean? 

• UNEASINESS (noun)
  The noun UNEASINESS has 5 senses:

1. feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

2. physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)

3. embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you

4. the trait of seeming ill at ease

5. inability to rest or relax or be still

  Familiarity information: UNEASINESS used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNEASINESS (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 ("uneasiness" 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 "uneasiness"):

willies (feelings of uneasiness)

Derivation:

uneasy (lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

malaise; unease; uneasiness

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

discomfort; uncomfortableness (the state of being tense and feeling pain)

Derivation:

uneasy (relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

self-consciousness; uncomfortableness; uneasiness

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

embarrassment (the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public)

Derivation:

uneasy (socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The trait of seeming ill at ease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

disquiet; unease; uneasiness

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

discomposure (a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure)

Derivation:

uneasy (socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Inability to rest or relax or be still

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

queasiness; restlessness; uneasiness

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

nervousness (a sensitive or highly strung temperament)

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

jactation; jactitation ((pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness)

Derivation:

uneasy (lacking or not affording physical or mental rest)

uneasy (causing or fraught with or showing anxiety)

 Context examples 

This unhappy boy, Miss Trotwood, has been the occasion of much domestic trouble and uneasiness; both during the lifetime of my late dear wife, and since.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I lay all this while, as the reader may believe, in great uneasiness.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Oh! my dear sir, her throat is so much better that I have hardly any uneasiness about it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A feeling of mental or physical uneasiness, pain, or distress.

(Discomfort, NCI Thesaurus)

Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With much uneasiness did she thus leave them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There is no giving you a moment's uneasiness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A condition marked by excessive worry and feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness that last six months or longer.

(GAD, NCI Dictionary)

I am sorry, exceedingly sorry, replied Darcy, in a tone of surprise and emotion, that you have ever been informed of what may, in a mistaken light, have given you uneasiness.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Well, Mrs. Warren, I cannot see that you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand why I, whose time is of some value, should interfere in the matter.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)