INQUIETUDE Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

inquietude

noun

Definition of inquietude

as in anxiety

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Recent Examples of inquietude Partying continued Friday, even as French officials pleaded with the participants to leave and as inquietude mounted within the French government. — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2021

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Noun

And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
This can help decrease anxiety and increase confidence by removing the pressure of one ideal performance and shifting focus to the present moment.

— Lennon Sherburne, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of anxiety

Noun

The killing of a woman in Okinawa has sparked an outcry across Japan and inflamed long-simmering tensions over the US military presence on the island.

— Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 7 Oct. 2026
The long sleeves of the blazer included a bevy of thin, frayed feathers that created textural tension.

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of tension

Noun

When presented together and thought juxtapositionally, the works launch visitors onto an emotional pendulum that pivots from exhilaration to unease and distress.

— Tina M. Campt, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
The survey quantifies the sense of unease and frustration many customers of these new-wave insurers feel.

— Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of unease

Noun

In humans, symptoms often include fever, weakness and headache before progressing to tingling sensations, anxiety, agitation, abnormal behavior, hallucinations, difficulty swallowing, coma and death.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
In addition to the heightened abstract threat level, there continue to be intense pro-Palestinian protests as well as corresponding agitation on social media.

— Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of agitation

Noun

Its responses are syrupy, its handling is unremarkable, and its odd brake pedal feel creates a sense of disquietude.

— Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 26 Apr. 2023
The fight for women’s rights, war, and the environment are dominating the headlines and the best collections reacted to this state of disquietude in a number of ways.

— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2022

Definition of disquietude

Noun

With two satellites at supplementary inclinations, the Newtonian perturbations are equal and opposite in the two orbital planes and cancel each other out.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
First is that quantum transitions must be weak to bring about perturbations in experiments.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026

Definition of perturbation

Noun

Asian economies are among the biggest customers of energy shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf with the Arabian Sea, making any prolonged disruption particularly consequential for the region.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
First, through funding from technology-native companies; and second, through disruption in distribution, whether via streaming or other non-conventional forms that are now mainstream.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

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