Restlessness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Restless \Rest"less\, a. [AS. restle['a]s.]
     1. Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a
        restless child. --Chaucer. "Restless revolution day by
        day." --Milton.
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     2. Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose
        or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless
        schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects. "Restless
        at home, and ever prone to range." --Dryden.
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     3. Deprived of rest or sleep.
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              Restless he passed the remnants of the night.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     4. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless
        night.
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     5. Not affording rest; as, a restless chair. --Cowper.
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     {Restless thrush}. (Zool.) See {Grinder}, 3.
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     Syn: Unquiet; uneasy; disturbed; disquieted; sleepless;
          agitated; unsettled; roving; wandering.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Rest"less*ly}, adv.-
          {Rest"less*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  restlessness
       n 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  207 Moby Thesaurus words for "restlessness":
     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