restlessness

restlessness
    n 1: the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active; "the
         restlessness of the wind"
    2: a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes
       delay [syn: {restlessness}, {impatience}]
    3: a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's
       got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of
       restlessness" [syn: {fidget}, {fidgetiness}, {restlessness}]
    4: inability to rest or relax or be still [syn: {restlessness},
       {uneasiness}, {queasiness}]
    

Restless \Rest"less\, a. [AS. restle['a]s.]
   1. Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a
      restless child. --Chaucer. "Restless revolution day by
      day." --Milton.
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   2. Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose
      or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless
      schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects. "Restless
      at home, and ever prone to range." --Dryden.
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   3. Deprived of rest or sleep.
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            Restless he passed the remnants of the night.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   4. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless
      night.
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   5. Not affording rest; as, a restless chair. --Cowper.
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   {Restless thrush}. (Zool.) See {Grinder}, 3.
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   Syn: Unquiet; uneasy; disturbed; disquieted; sleepless;
        agitated; unsettled; roving; wandering.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Rest"less*ly}, adv.-
        {Rest"less*ness}, n.
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207 Moby Thesaurus words for "restlessness":
      Faustianism, activity, actuation, ado, agitation, ailment,
      alertness, all-night vigil, anxiety, bluster, bobbery, boil,
      boiling, bother, botheration, breathless impatience, brouhaha,
      burst, bustle, capriciousness, chafing, churn, cold comfort,
      commotion, consciousness, conturbation, desultoriness, deviability,
      didder, disappointment, discomposure, discontent, discontentedness,
      discontentment, disgruntlement, disorder, disquiet, disquietude,
      dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, disturbance, dithers,
      divine discontent, dynamics, eagerness, ebullition, eccentricity,
      embroilment, envy, erraticism, excitement, feery-fary, ferment,
      fermentation, fever, feverishness, fickleness, fidgetiness,
      fidgets, fit, flap, flightiness, flurry, fluster, flutter,
      flutteration, flutteriness, foment, freakishness, fretfulness,
      fretting, fume, fuss, fussiness, going, haste, heaving, hubbub,
      hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ill humor, impatience, impatientness,
      impetuousness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy,
      inquietude, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency,
      instability, irregularity, jitters, jumpiness, kinematics,
      kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lather,
      lidless vigil, maelstrom, malaise, mercuriality, mobilization,
      moil, moodiness, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving,
      nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, palpitation, panting,
      peevishness, perturbation, petulance, pitapat, pitter-patter,
      pother, quaking, quaver, quavering, querulousness, quiver,
      quivering, rebelliousness, resentment, restiveness, roil, rout,
      row, running, scramble, seethe, seething, sentience, shakes,
      shaking, shiftiness, shiver, shivers, shudder, sleeplessness,
      sourness, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, stirring, sulkiness, sweat,
      swirl, tense readiness, throb, throbbing, to-do,
      tossing and turning, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation,
      trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil,
      twitter, uncertainty, undependability, unease, uneasiness,
      unfixedness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpatientness, unpleasure,
      unpredictability, unquiet, unquietness, unreliability, unrest,
      unsatisfaction, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness,
      unsteadiness, upset, variability, variation, variety, velocity,
      vexation of spirit, vigil, vortex, wake, wakefulness, wantonness,
      waywardness, whimsicality, whirl