inquietude
See also: inquiétude
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inquietudo.
Noun
inquietude (countable and uncountable, plural inquietudes)
- A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
- 1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1999), page 121
- 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.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume III, Chapter 12,
- 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.
- 1830, Mary Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, Volume I, Chapter ,
- 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 […]
- 1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1999), page 121
Translations
the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inquietudo.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -udʒi
Noun
inquietude f (plural inquietudes)
- restlessness; inquietude (state or condition of being restless)
Synonyms
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