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Restlessness   /rˈɛstləsnəs/   Listen
Restlessness

noun
1.
The quality of being ceaselessly moving or active.
2.
A lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay.  Synonym: impatience.
3.
A feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion.  Synonyms: fidget, fidgetiness.  "Waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness"
4.
Inability to rest or relax or be still.  Synonyms: queasiness, uneasiness.





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"Restlessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... exclaimed. "Why not? It has grown up with me. And the only trouble is that it causes me the greatest restlessness. My fate is like all others. I am exactly what I would not be. Sometimes I long to enjoy all the ...
— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child
... their objects interesting, their disorderliness disappears at once; their mental restlessness is at an end, and they amuse themselves with the blocks, ...
— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori
... like it very much. So Hildegarde first gave posies to all the other children in the room, and then came back and sat down on Benny's bed, and sang, "Up the airy mountain," in a very sweet, clear voice. Several little ones had been tossing about in feverish restlessness, but now they lay still and listened; and when the song was over, a hoarse voice from a corner of the room cried, ...
— Hildegarde's Holiday - a story for girls • Laura E. Richards
... the whole character seems traced, as it were, in an expiatory spirit; as if, conscious of his own wandering restlessness, he sought to humble himself at the shrine of excellence which he had ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving
... continued, with the pronunciation of a man who, far from having intended to tell a week-day story a moment earlier, had thought of nothing but Sabbath matters for several weeks. 'What did he gain after all by his restlessness? Had he remained in the city of the Jebusites, and not been so anxious for Gibeah, none of his troubles would ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy


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