Hypertext Webster Gateway: "unrest"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Unrest \Un*rest"\, n.
Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness;
uneasiness; disquietude.
Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest!
--Chaucer.
Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single
breast? --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
unrest
n 1: a state of agitation or turbulent change or development:
"the political ferment produced a new leadership";
"social unrest" [syn: {agitation}, {ferment}, {fermentation}]
2: a feeling of restless agitation
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