Dictionary

inquietude en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inquiētūdō.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
   • 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: […] 1830, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 39:
   • 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. 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 223:
   • 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. 1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney, published 1999, page 121:

Forms

Relateds

inquiet · quietude

Translations (7)

bg безпокойство (the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous) · es inquietud (the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous) · nl onrust (the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous) · hu izgatottság (the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous) · hu izgalom (the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous) · hu nyugtalanság (the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous) · pt inquietude (the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous)