inquietude

See also: inquiétude

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inquietudo.

Noun

inquietude (countable and uncountable, plural inquietudes)

1. A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
   • 1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1999), page 121

     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.

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 12, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1830, Mary Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck‎^[1], volume I:

     Even as he spoke, steps were heard near the apartment; and while the eyes of both were turned with inquietude on the expected intruder, Lord Lovel entered […]

Related terms

• inquiet
• quietude

Translations

the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous

• Bulgarian: безпокойство (bg) n (bezpokojstvo)
• Hungarian: nyugtalanság (hu), izgatottság (hu), izgalom (hu)
• Portuguese: inquietude (pt)
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• Spanish: inquietud (es) f

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inquietudo.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.kjɛˈtu.dɨ/ [ĩ.kjɛˈtu.ðɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -udʒi, (Portugal) -udɨ
• Hyphenation: in‧qui‧e‧tu‧de

Noun

inquietude f (plural inquietudes)

1. restlessness; inquietude (state or condition of being restless)

   Synonym: inquietação

Related terms

• inquietar