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unrest
CIDE DICTIONARY
unrest, n.
Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude. [1913 Webster]
"Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest!" [1913 Webster]
"Can calm despair and wild unrest
Be tenants of a single breast?" [1913 Webster]
Be tenants of a single breast?" [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
unrest
activity, actuation, agitation, agony, ailment, anguish, anxiety, anxiousness, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle, churn, commotion, concern, conturbation, didder, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dithers, dynamics, ebullition, embroilment, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, going, heaving, hubbub, hurly-burly, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, maelstrom, malaise, mobilization, moil, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, palpitation, panting, perturbation, pitapat, pitter-patter, quaking, quaver, quavering, quiver, quivering, restiveness, restlessness, roil, rout, row, running, seethe, seething, shakes, shaking, shiver, shivers, shudder, stir, stirring, strife, swirl, throb, throbbing, to-do, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, uneasiness, upset, velocity, worryROGET THESAURUS
unrest
Changeableness
N changeableness, mutability, inconstancy, versatility, mobility, instability, unstable equilibrium, vacillation, fluctuation, vicissitude, alternation, restlessness, fidgets, disquiet, disquietude, inquietude, unrest, agitation, moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers, wheel of Fortune, transientness, changeable, changeful, changing, mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing, protean, proteiform, versatile, unstaid, inconstant, unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled, fluctuating, restless, agitated, erratic, fickle, irresolute, capricious, touch and go, inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic, vibratory, vagrant, wayward, desultory, afloat, alternating, alterable, plastic, mobile, transient, wavering, seesaw, off and on, a rolling stone gathers no moss, pictra mossa non fa muschis, honores mutant mores, varium et mutabile semper femina.Motion
N motion, movement, move, going, unrest, stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir, evolution, kinematics, telekinesis, step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity, clip, progress, locomotion, journey, voyage, transit, restlessness, mobility, movableness, motive power, laws of motion, mobilization, moving, in motion, transitional, motory, motive, shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet, restless, nomadic, erratic, under way, on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march, eppur si muove, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.For further exploring for "unrest" in Webster Dictionary Online