'Disturbance' definitions:
Definition of 'disturbance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption; "the term `distress' connotes some degree of perturbation and emotional upset"; "he looked around for the source of the disturbance"; "there was a disturbance of neural function" [syn: perturbation, disturbance]
noun
An unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me" [syn: disturbance, perturbation, upset]
noun
A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle]
noun
noun
The act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
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(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness [syn: mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie]
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Electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication [syn: noise, interference, disturbance]
Definition of 'Disturbance'
From: GCIDE
- Disturbance \Dis*turb"ance\, n. [OF. destorbance.]
- 1. An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness. [1913 Webster]
- Any man . . . in a state of disturbance and irritation. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult. [1913 Webster]
- The disturbance was made to support a general accusation against the province. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. --Blackstone.
- Syn: Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil; uproar; hubbub; disorder; derangement; confusion; agitation; perturbation; annoyance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disturbance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abashment,
- ado,
- affray,
- agitation,
- all-overs,
- angst,
- anxiety,
- anxiety hysteria,
- anxiety neurosis,
- anxious bench,
- anxious concern,
- anxious seat,
- anxiousness,
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- befuddlement,
- bewilderment,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- bother,
- botheration,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- bustle,
- cacophony,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- chagrin,
- chaos,
- churn,
- cloud,
- commotion,
- concern,
- concernment,
- confoundment,
- confusion,
- conturbation,
- convulsion,
- daze,
- derangement,
- dilemma,
- disarrangement,
- disarray,
- disarticulation,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- discountenance,
- disharmony,
- dishevelment,
- disintegration,
- disjunction,
- dislocation,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorganization,
- disorientation,
- disproportion,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disruption,
- distress,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- dread,
- dustup,
- ebullience,
- ebullition,
- eddy,
- effervescence,
- embarrassment,
- embroilment,
- enigma,
- entropy,
- excitement,
- fanaticism,
- fear,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgets,
- fix,
- flap,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- flutteration,
- fog,
- foment,
- fomentation,
- foofaraw,
- foreboding,
- forebodingness,
- fracas,
- fray,
- free-for-all,
- frenzy,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fume,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- fuss,
- haphazardness,
- hassle,
- haze,
- helter-skelter,
- hubbub,
- hullabaloo,
- hurly-burly,
- hurry,
- hurry-scurry,
- incoherence,
- indiscriminateness,
- inharmonious harmony,
- inquietude,
- insanity,
- interference,
- interruption,
- intrusion,
- irregularity,
- jam,
- jitters,
- jumble,
- jumpiness,
- maelstrom,
- malaise,
- maze,
- melee,
- mess,
- misarrangement,
- misgiving,
- mist,
- moil,
- mortification,
- most admired disorder,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- mystery,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervous strain,
- nervous tension,
- nervousness,
- nonplus,
- nonsymmetry,
- nonuniformity,
- outburst,
- overanxiety,
- pandemonium,
- passion,
- pell-mell,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pickle,
- pins and needles,
- plight,
- pother,
- predicament,
- problem,
- promiscuity,
- promiscuousness,
- pucker,
- puzzle,
- puzzlement,
- quandary,
- racket,
- rage,
- rampage,
- randomness,
- restlessness,
- riddle,
- riot,
- roil,
- rough-and-tumble,
- roughhouse,
- rout,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- ruffle,
- rumpus,
- scramble,
- scrape,
- seethe,
- seething,
- shindy,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- solicitude,
- stew,
- stir,
- storminess,
- strain,
- suspense,
- sweat,
- swirl,
- swirling,
- swivet,
- tempestuousness,
- tension,
- tizzy,
- to-do,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- trouble,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- tumultuousness,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- unassuredness,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- unquietness,
- unrest,
- unsettlement,
- unsymmetry,
- ununiformity,
- upheaval,
- uproar,
- upset,
- vexation,
- violence,
- vortex,
- whirl,
- wildness,
- yeastiness,
- zeal,
- zealousness