restlessness

1 the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active; "the restlessness of the wind"

2 a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay [syn: impatience]

3 a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness" [syn: fidget, fidgetiness]

4 inability to rest or relax or be still [syn: uneasiness]

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

1. The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, or comfortable.

   She sat and fidgeted out of restlessness as she waited.

Related terms

• rest
• restlessly

Translations

• French: agitation, impatience
• Polish: niepokój, zniecierpliwienie, wzburzenie
• Spanish: agitación, desasosiego

References

Agitation may refer to:

• emotional state of excitement or restlessness
  • psychomotor agitation, an extreme form of the above, which can be a side effect of antipsychotic medication
• agitation (action), putting into motion by shaking or stirring
• political agitation, political activities in which an agitator urges people to do something
• Agitated, a B-Side from the band Muse

See also

• Agitator (disambiguation)

Faustianism, activity, actuation, ado, agitation, ailment, alertness, all-night vigil, anxiety, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, breathless impatience, brouhaha, burst, bustle, capriciousness, chafing, churn, cold comfort, commotion, consciousness, conturbation, desultoriness, deviability, didder, disappointment, discomposure, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disgruntlement, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, disturbance, dithers, divine discontent, dynamics, eagerness, ebullition, eccentricity, embroilment, envy, erraticism, excitement, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fickleness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, flap, flightiness, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, foment, freakishness, fretfulness, fretting, fume, fuss, fussiness, going, haste, heaving, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ill humor, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy, inquietude, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency, instability, irregularity, jitters, jumpiness, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lather, lidless vigil, maelstrom, malaise, mercuriality, mobilization, moil, moodiness, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, palpitation, panting, peevishness, perturbation, petulance, pitapat, pitter-patter, pother, quaking, quaver, quavering, querulousness, quiver, quivering, rebelliousness, resentment, restiveness, roil, rout, row, running, scramble, seethe, seething, sentience, shakes, shaking, shiftiness, shiver, shivers, shudder, sleeplessness, sourness, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, stirring, sulkiness, sweat, swirl, tense readiness, throb, throbbing, to-do, tossing and turning, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, uncertainty, undependability, unease, uneasiness, unfixedness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpatientness, unpleasure, unpredictability, unquiet, unquietness, unreliability, unrest, unsatisfaction, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, upset, variability, variation, variety, velocity, vexation of spirit, vigil, vortex, wake, wakefulness, wantonness, waywardness, whimsicality, whirl