INQUIETUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inquietude mean? 

• INQUIETUDE (noun)
  The noun INQUIETUDE has 1 sense:

1. feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

  Familiarity information: INQUIETUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INQUIETUDE (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 ("inquietude" 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 "inquietude"):

willies (feelings of uneasiness)

 Context examples 

Still, as I urged our leaving Ireland with such inquietude and impatience, my father thought it best to yield.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A doubt of her regard, supposing him to feel it, need not give him more than inquietude.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Yet how different now the source of her inquietude from what it had been then—how mournfully superior in reality and substance!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mina was looking tired and pale, but she made a gallant effort to be bright and cheerful, it wrung my heart to think that I had had to keep anything from her and so caused her inquietude.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He listened to his father in silence, and attempted not any defence, which confirmed her in fearing that the inquietude of his mind, on Isabella's account, might, by keeping him long sleepless, have been the real cause of his rising late.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)