Disquietude

Definition: Disquietude

Disquietude

Noun

1. Feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable.

Date "disquietude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Disquietude

Synonyms: edginess (n), inquietude (n), uneasiness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Changeableness	Restlessness &x. Adjective: fidgets, disquiet; disquietude, inquietude; unrest; agitation.
Excitability	Noun: excitability, impetuosity, vehemence; boisterousness; Adjective: turbulence; impatience, intolerance, nonendurance; irritability; (irascibility); itching; (desire); wincing; disquiet, disquietude; restlessness; fidgets, fidgetiness; agitation; (irregular motion).
Fear	Nervousness, restlessness; Adjective: inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear; (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Disquietude

English words defined with "disquietude": Alarm post. (references)

Specialty definitions using "disquietude": Aches ♦ Reception ♦ Zephyr. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Snowflake on the Belfry: Dogma and Disquietude in the Critical Arena (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He saw, with disquietude, shaken within him that species of frightful calm which the injustice of his fate had given him.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Disquietude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disquietude" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Language		Translations for "disquietude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trazim (agitation, commotion, disquiet, distemper, disturbance, dust, elaboration, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, immixture, kneading, melange, mixing, mixture, perturbation, poke, turbidity, turbulence), shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturbance, fash, fear, feeling, fidget, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry). (various references)

Arabic		‏قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry). (various references)

Bulgarian		безпокойство (alarm, anxiety, bother, care, concernment, discomposure, disquiet, disturbance, fash, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, malaise, plague, qualm, ruffle, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, upset, whim-wham, worriment, worrit, worry). (various references)

French		tumulte. (various references)

German		Unruhe (about, agitation, anxiety, concern (at, disorderliness, disquiet, disturbance, ferment, fermentation, fidget, fidgetiness, fretfulness, noise, perturbation, restiveness, restlessness, ruckus, skittishness, trouble, turbulence, unease, uneasiness, unrest, worry). (various references)

Greek		ανησυχία (anxiety, apprehension, concern, concernment, dismay, disquiet, inquietude, nervousness, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry). (various references)

Hungarian		nyugtalanság (apprehension, commotion, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, distraction, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, fret, inquietude, misgiving, puzzlement, restlessness, throes, uneasiness, unrest). (various references)

Italian		inquietudine (anxiety, disquiet, restlessness, unease, worry). (various references)

Manx		bea (animation, life, lifespan, vital). (various references)

Pig Latin		isquietudeday

Portuguese		inquietante (anxious, uncanny, uncomfortable), inquietação (anxiety, care, colorwash, colourwash, concern, discomfort, disquiet, distemper, fidget, fret, hurry, inquietude, jactitation, misgiving, preoccupation, quicksilver, uneasiness, unrest, worry). (various references)

Romanian		nelinişte (agitation, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disturbance, ferment, flurry, fret, inquietude, perturbation, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worry), neastâmpãr (agitation, bustle, fidget), îngrijorare (alarm, anxiety, concern, discomfort, disquiet, fear, inquietude, restlessness, thought, uneasiness, worry). (various references)

Russian		беспокойство (ado, Angst, anxiety, bother, botheration, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disturbance, fash, fidget, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, restlessness, taking, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, uneasyness, unrest, worry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uznemirenost (disquiet, disturbance, dither, fidget, inquietude, toss, uneasiness). (various references)

Spanish		desasosiego (anxiety, disquiet, restlessness, unease, unrest). (various references)

Swedish		oro (agitation, alarm, anxiety, botheration, concern, discomposure, disquiet, disturbance, flutter, harassment, inquietude, jimjams, nervousness, perturbation, qualm, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, unease, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry). (various references)

Turkish		merak (anxiety, avocation, bug, care, concern, crotchet, curiosity, disquiet, fad, fancy, hobby, interest, sensation, whim, wonderment, worry), kaygı (anxiety, apprehension, care, discomposure, disquiet, fear, fears, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, solicitude, worry), huzursuzluk (discomfort, disquiet, fermentation, fidget, hump, inquietude, qualm, restiveness, restlessness, sleeplessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), endişe (agitation, angst, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disturbance, doubt, fear, fears, fret, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, qualm, scruple, solicitude, stew, suspense, uneasiness, worry). (various references)

Ukrainian		стурбованість (discomposure, disquietness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự không yên lòng (disquiet, disquietness), sự không an tâm (disquiet, disquietness), sự băn khoăn lo lắng (discomfort, disquiet, disquietness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "disquietude": disquietudes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Disquietude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disquitetude. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-i-i-q-s-t-u-u"
	-1 letter: disquieted.
	-2 letters: quietudes.
	-3 letters: disquiet, equities, quietude.
	-4 letters: deities, equites, quested, quieted, quietus, studdie, studied, teddies.
	-5 letters: didies, dieted, dusted, duties, eddies, edited, equids, etudes, queued, queues, quiets, sueded, suited, teiids, tidied, tidies, tuques.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-i-i-q-s-t-u-u"
	+1 letter: disquietudes.
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