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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a state of agitation or turbulent change or development;
- Example: "the political ferment produced new leadership"
- Example: "social unrest"
[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.
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         Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest!
                                                  --Chaucer.
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         Can calm despair and wild unrest
         Be tenants of a single breast?           --Tennyson.
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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