inquietude

Borrowed from Latin inquietudo.

inquietude (countable and uncountable, plural inquietudes)

1. A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
   • 1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1999), page 121

     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.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume III, Chapter 12,

     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.

   • 1830, Mary Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, Volume I, Chapter ,

     Even as he spoke, steps were heard near the apartment; and while the eyes of both were turned with inquietude on the expected intruder, Lord Lovel entered […]

• inquiet
• quietude

Borrowed from Latin inquietudo.

• Rhymes: -udʒi

inquietude f (plural inquietudes)

1. restlessness; inquietude (state or condition of being restless)

• inquietação

• inquietar