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Webster 1913 Edition


Inquietude

In-qui′e-tude

,
Noun.
[L.
inquietudo
: cf. F.
inquietude
.]
Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude.
Sir H. Wotton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Inquietude

INQUI'ETUDE

,
Noun.
[L. inquietudo; in and quies,rest.]
Disturbed state; want of quiet; restlessness; uneasiness, either of body or mind; disquietude.

Definition 2024


inquietude

inquietude

See also: inquiétude

English

Noun

inquietude (plural inquietudes)

  1. 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, page 395
      The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable

Translations


Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -udʒi

Noun

inquietude f (plural inquietudes)

  1. restlessness; inquietude (state or condition of being restless)

Synonyms