inquietude

See also: inquiétude

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inquietudo.

Noun

inquietude (countable and uncountable, plural inquietudes)

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

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Translations

the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous

Bulgarian: безпокойство (bg) n (bezpokojstvo)
Hungarian: nyugtalanság (hu), izgatottság (hu), izgalom (hu)
Portuguese: inquietude (pt)
Spanish: inquietud (es) f

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inquiētūdō.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ki.eˈtu.d͡ʒi/ [ĩ.kɪ.eˈtu.d͡ʒi], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.kjeˈtu.d͡ʒi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.ki.eˈtu.de/ [ĩ.kɪ.eˈtu.de], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.kjeˈtu.de/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.kjɛˈtu.dɨ/ [ĩ.kjɛˈtu.ðɨ]

Rhymes: (Brazil) -ud͡ʒi, (Portugal) -udɨ
Hyphenation: in‧qui‧e‧tu‧de

Noun

inquietude f (plural inquietudes)

restlessness; inquietude (state or condition of being restless)
Synonym: inquietação

Related terms

inquietar

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