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inquietude

noun

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin inquiētūdōlbor. English inquietude Learned borrowing from Latin inquiētūdō.

  1. A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.

    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.

    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.