'Restlessness' definitions:
Definition of 'restlessness'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being ceaselessly moving or active; "the restlessness of the wind"
noun
A lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay [syn: restlessness, impatience]
noun
A feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness" [syn: fidget, fidgetiness, restlessness]
noun
Inability to rest or relax or be still [syn: restlessness, uneasiness, queasiness]
Definition of 'Restlessness'
From: GCIDE
- Restless \Rest"less\, a. [AS. restle['a]s.]
- 1. Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child. --Chaucer. "Restless revolution day by day." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects. "Restless at home, and ever prone to range." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Deprived of rest or sleep. [1913 Webster]
- Restless he passed the remnants of the night. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Not affording rest; as, a restless chair. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Restless thrush. (Zool.) See Grinder, 3. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Unquiet; uneasy; disturbed; disquieted; sleepless; agitated; unsettled; roving; wandering. [1913 Webster] -- {Rest"less*ly}, adv.- {Rest"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'restlessness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- activity,
- actuation,
- ado,
- agitation,
- ailment,
- alertness,
- all-night vigil,
- anxiety,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- bother,
- botheration,
- breathless impatience,
- brouhaha,
- burst,
- bustle,
- capriciousness,
- chafing,
- churn,
- cold comfort,
- commotion,
- consciousness,
- conturbation,
- desultoriness,
- deviability,
- didder,
- disappointment,
- discomposure,
- discontent,
- discontentedness,
- discontentment,
- disgruntlement,
- disorder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissatisfiedness,
- disturbance,
- dithers,
- divine discontent,
- dynamics,
- eagerness,
- ebullition,
- eccentricity,
- embroilment,
- envy,
- erraticism,
- excitement,
- Faustianism,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fickleness,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- fit,
- flap,
- flightiness,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- flutteration,
- flutteriness,
- foment,
- freakishness,
- fretfulness,
- fretting,
- fume,
- fuss,
- fussiness,
- going,
- haste,
- heaving,
- hubbub,
- hullabaloo,
- hurly-burly,
- ill humor,
- impatience,
- impatientness,
- impetuousness,
- impulsiveness,
- inconsistency,
- inconstancy,
- inquietude,
- insomnia,
- insomniac,
- insomnolence,
- insomnolency,
- instability,
- irregularity,
- jitters,
- jumpiness,
- kinematics,
- kinesipathy,
- kinesis,
- kinesitherapy,
- kinetics,
- lather,
- lidless vigil,
- maelstrom,
- malaise,
- mercuriality,
- mobilization,
- moil,
- moodiness,
- motion,
- motivation,
- move,
- movement,
- moving,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- palpitation,
- panting,
- peevishness,
- perturbation,
- petulance,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- pother,
- quaking,
- quaver,
- quavering,
- querulousness,
- quiver,
- quivering,
- rebelliousness,
- resentment,
- restiveness,
- roil,
- rout,
- row,
- running,
- scramble,
- seethe,
- seething,
- sentience,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shiftiness,
- shiver,
- shivers,
- shudder,
- sleeplessness,
- sourness,
- spasm,
- spurt,
- stew,
- stir,
- stirring,
- sulkiness,
- sweat,
- swirl,
- tense readiness,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- to-do,
- tossing and turning,
- tremble,
- trembling,
- tremor,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- uncertainty,
- undependability,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- unfixedness,
- unfulfillment,
- unhappiness,
- unpatientness,
- unpleasure,
- unpredictability,
- unquiet,
- unquietness,
- unreliability,
- unrest,
- unsatisfaction,
- unsettledness,
- unstableness,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsteadiness,
- upset,
- variability,
- variation,
- variety,
- velocity,
- vexation of spirit,
- vigil,
- vortex,
- wake,
- wakefulness,
- wantonness,
- waywardness,
- whimsicality,
- whirl