unrest

unrest
    n 1: a state of agitation or turbulent change or development;
         "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social
         unrest" [syn: {agitation}, {ferment}, {fermentation},
         {tempestuousness}, {unrest}]
    2: a feeling of restless agitation
    

Unrest \Un*rest"\, n.
   Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness;
   uneasiness; disquietude.
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         Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest!
                                                  --Chaucer.
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         Can calm despair and wild unrest
         Be tenants of a single breast?           --Tennyson.
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115 Moby Thesaurus words for "unrest":
      activity, actuation, agitation, agony, ailment, anguish, anxiety,
      anxiousness, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle,
      churn, commotion, concern, conturbation, didder, discomposure,
      disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dithers,
      dynamics, ebullition, embroilment, excitement, ferment,
      fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap,
      flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, going,
      heaving, hubbub, hurly-burly, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness,
      kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics,
      maelstrom, malaise, mobilization, moil, motion, motivation, move,
      movement, moving, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, palpitation,
      panting, perturbation, pitapat, pitter-patter, quaking, quaver,
      quavering, quiver, quivering, restiveness, restlessness, roil,
      rout, row, running, seethe, seething, shakes, shaking, shiver,
      shivers, shudder, stir, stirring, strife, swirl, throb, throbbing,
      to-do, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, trouble,
      tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter,
      unease, uneasiness, upset, velocity, worry