1.
[syn: agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest]
2. a feeling of restless agitation;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unrest \Un*rest"\, n.
Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness;
uneasiness; disquietude.
[1913 Webster]
Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest!
--Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
Can calm despair and wild unrest
Be tenants of a single breast? --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unrest
n 1: a state of agitation or turbulent change or development;
"the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social
unrest" [syn: agitation, ferment, fermentation,
tempestuousness, unrest]
2: a feeling of restless agitation
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "unrest":
activity, actuation, agitation, agony, ailment, anguish, anxiety,
anxiousness, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle,
churn, commotion, concern, conturbation, didder, discomposure,
disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dithers,
dynamics, ebullition, embroilment, excitement, ferment,
fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap,
flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, going,
heaving, hubbub, hurly-burly, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness,
kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics,
maelstrom, malaise, mobilization, moil, motion, motivation, move,
movement, moving, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, palpitation,
panting, perturbation, pitapat, pitter-patter, quaking, quaver,
quavering, quiver, quivering, restiveness, restlessness, roil,
rout, row, running, seethe, seething, shakes, shaking, shiver,
shivers, shudder, stir, stirring, strife, swirl, throb, throbbing,
to-do, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, trouble,
tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter,
unease, uneasiness, upset, velocity, worry