inquietude
inquietude noun: a condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
Noun
inquietude (countable and uncountable, plural inquietudes)
- A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
- Yet, I confess, my frankness has involved me in many after thoughts and inquietudes; inquietudes, which all my reasoning is, at times, insufficient to allay.1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney, published 1999, page 121
- The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been—that had been—hard for him to bear.1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 223
inquietude meaning in Tamil and Urdu
inquietude in Tamil
- மன அமைதியின்மை, சஞ்சலம், கவலை
inquietude in Urdu
- inquietude, seethe
- اضطراب iztirāb
Forms of inquietude
| plural | inquietudes |
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Origin of inquietude
Learned borrowing from Latin inquiētūdō.
Questions about inquietude
- What does inquietude mean?
- Inquietude means a condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
- What is inquietude in Tamil?
- Inquietude in Tamil is மன அமைதியின்மை, சஞ்சலம், கவலை. See Inquietude meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is inquietude?
- Inquietude is a noun.
- What is the plural of inquietude?
- The plural of inquietude is inquietudes.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: inquietude (page history and authors); inquietude (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اضطراب (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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