Meanings
plural inquietudes
- countableuncountableA condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
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.
1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney, published 1999, page 1212 more examples
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.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 223Even 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: […]
1830, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 39
Synonyms & antonyms
nounfeelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latininquiētūdō
- Latininquiētūdō
- Englishinquietude
Learned borrowing from Latin inquiētūdō.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian безпокойство
- безпокойство (bezpokojstvo)the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
Dutch onrust
- onrustthe condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
Hungarian nyugtalanság, izgatottság
- nyugtalanságthe condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
- izgatottságthe condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
- izgalomthe condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
Portuguese inquietude
- inquietudethe condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
Spanish inquietud
- inquietudthe condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
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