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Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude.

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  1. n. Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude.
  2. n. a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
  3. n. a feeling of restless agitation
  4. Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude. Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest! Chaucer. Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast Tennyson.
  5. Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness;disquietude.Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest! Chaucer.Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breastTennyson.
  6. n:100 n. a feeling of restless agitation