restiveness
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈrɛstɪvnis/
:
inquietud
- Consequently, the periodic restiveness among some factions of the movement that can see the virtue of greater nonviolent political participation has led to a propensity for divisions and splits.
Examples
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Substance use reduction strategies should be seriously enthroned as part of the overall policy focus in mitigating students' restiveness on our campuses.
Academic text (2007) -
Public restiveness over the size of government expenditures has also heightened interest in environmental approaches that require less bureaucracy and governmental intrusion into business and household decisions.
Academic text (1992) -
Yet the essayist repeatedly emphasizes his own restiveness under rules and restrictions.
Academic text (1991) -
This and other instances of military restiveness discussed below give a measure of the failure of these strategies to eliminate military intervention in Kenyan politics.
Academic text (2002) -
Time and restiveness had dispersed the grown chicks to other places, but that faithful hen remained.
Fiction book (1994) -
But the Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 and growing restiveness during the 1980s introduced new political possibilities that Bester found both exciting and frightening.
Academic text (1996) -
His articles reflect the tenor of the times—women's growing restiveness and politicization, pressures for affirmative action.
Academic text (2006) -
The poor health conditions of the people of the Niger Delta area, who often blame their woes on environmental damage by oil prospecting and oil-producing activities, have led to political restiveness, claims, negotiations, and so forth between the local people and successive governments.
Academic text (2010) -
Public restiveness about the Warren Court first surfaced with the Senate's refusal to approve President Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas for the chief justiceship.
Academic text (1993) -
The teacher noticed a state of restiveness in the classroom as students fidgeted during the long lecture.
Synonyms
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2.7
A feeling of being worried or anxious
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4.4
A feeling of worry and not being relaxed
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3.8
Unable to sit still and relax because of worry, boredom or impatience
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7.6
A tendency to be easily frightened or nervous
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6.9
A feeling of nervousness that makes you shake or move a lot
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5.9
Being nervous and easily scared by small noises or movements
A feeling that makes you move or touch things because you cannot stay still
Antonyms
How Restless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Restiveness comes from restive, a word once used for a horse that would not move and linked to the Latin root stare meaning 'to stand'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of rest, which means 'not moving', turning into nervous energy, so restiveness is the state of being 'restless' or hard to control.