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US
/ˈɹɛstɫəsnəs/
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[ UK /ɹˈɛstləsnəs/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛstləsnəs/ ]
NOUN
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the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active
the restlessness of the wind - a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay
- inability to rest or relax or be still
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a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion
waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness
he's got the fidgets
How To Use restlessness In A Sentence
- Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison
- Restlessness, anxiety , confusion, and twitching may also precede convulsions.
- We are already in the twentieth century with its restlessness, its inquietude, ‘the age of anxiety’.
- Behold the mountain rillet, become a brook, become a torrent, how it inarms a handsome boulder: yet if the stone will not go with it, on it hurries, pursuing self in extension, down to where perchance a dam has been raised of a sufficient depth to enfold and keep it from inordinate restlessness. The Egoist
- Try Teething Granules, which help relieve restlessness and irritability due to pain and tenderness associated with teething.
- One well-known quality of anti-depressants is their tendency to induce akathisia in a large number of patients, causing the kind of internal racing or restlessness that makes the meds impossible for some to take and, in some cases, can drive people to the edge of suicide. Furious Seasons
- Like Jeff Beck, his restlessness and commitment overrode the commercial gains to be won by the more mainstream Clapton.
- There was a feeling of restlessness deep in her soul.
- While not depicted here, it is suggested that the inhibitory input to these DA pathways produces the overt and covert restlessness characteristic of akathisia.
- In her novel, what abides is dissatisfaction, restlessness, the hungry tapeworm of individual will.