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synonyms for restiveness
- activity
- agitation
- ailment
- ants
- anxiety
- bustle
- disquiet
- disquietude
- disturbance
- edginess
- excitability
- ferment
- fitfulness
- fretfulness
- hurry
- inconstancy
- inquietude
- insomnia
- instability
- jitters
- jumpiness
- movement
- nervousness
- transience
- turbulence
- turmoil
- unease
- uneasiness
- unrest
- antsiness
- unsettledness
- worriedness
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There is a restiveness in human nature that resists compulsion, even to its own manifest advantage.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThe trained horses, being all together, had shown themselves wonderfully free from restiveness.
FORGING THE BLADESBERTRAM MITFORDBut the delay in reaching the figure in the gallery produced great restiveness.
"PERSONS UNKNOWN"VIRGINIA TRACYLady Cantire (perceiving that the Bishop is showing signs of restiveness).
LYRE AND LANCETF. ANSTEYFor a long time he had striven to mute Art's musical restiveness.
MRS. BINDLEHEBERT JENKINSBy the restiveness of woman under the tutelage of man may he measure his own short-comings.
A NEW ATMOSPHEREGAIL HAMILTONForeign observers of that time constantly allude to this universal and inexplicable restiveness.
OUR FOREIGNERSSAMUEL P. ORTHThat has been the manner of his going, although, of course, he was driven on by restiveness and lust for booty.
THE JACKET (THE STAR-ROVER)JACK LONDON"Strange restiveness for one reared in the quiet inner chambers of a Jewish house," he observed.
THE CITY OF DELIGHTELIZABETH MILLERThe music, whether of organ or of word, is more to me than ever; the literal meaning causes me no restiveness.
THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF HENRY RYECROFTGEORGE GISSINGWORDS RELATED TO RESTIVENESS
- ailment
- brouhaha
- clamor
- commotion
- convulsion
- disquiet
- disquietude
- disruption
- disturbance
- excitement
- fever
- flap
- frenzy
- furor
- fuss
- heat
- hell broke loose
- hubbub
- imbroglio
- outcry
- restiveness
- restlessness
- row
- rumble
- scene
- state of unrest
- stew
- stink
- stir
- storm
- to-do
- tumult
- turbulence
- turmoil
- unrest
- upheaval
- uproar
- upturn
- agitation
- anger
- annoyance
- ants in pants
- anxiety
- avidity
- disquietude
- eagerness
- edginess
- excitement
- expectancy
- fretfulness
- haste
- hastiness
- heat
- impetuosity
- intolerance
- irritability
- irritableness
- nervousness
- quick temper
- rashness
- restiveness
- restlessness
- shortness
- snappiness
- suspense
- uneasiness
- vehemence
- violence
- activity
- agitation
- ailment
- ants
- antsiness
- anxiety
- bustle
- disquiet
- disquietude
- disturbance
- edginess
- excitability
- ferment
- fitfulness
- fretfulness
- hurry
- inconstancy
- insomnia
- instability
- jitters
- jumpiness
- movement
- nervousness
- restiveness
- transience
- turbulence
- turmoil
- unease
- uneasiness
- unrest
- unsettledness
- worriedness
- activity
- agitation
- ailment
- ants
- antsiness
- anxiety
- bustle
- disquiet
- disquietude
- disturbance
- edginess
- excitability
- ferment
- fitfulness
- fretfulness
- hurry
- inconstancy
- inquietude
- insomnia
- instability
- jitters
- jumpiness
- movement
- nervousness
- restiveness
- transience
- turbulence
- turmoil
- uneasiness
- unrest
- unsettledness
- worriedness
- agitation
- ailment
- anxiety
- anxiousness
- bedlam
- bustle
- commotion
- confusion
- disorder
- disquiet
- disquietude
- distress
- disturbance
- dither
- ferment
- flap
- flurry
- free-for-all
- fuss
- hassle
- hectic
- hubbub
- lather
- mix-up
- noise
- pandemonium
- pother
- restiveness
- restlessness
- riot
- row
- ruckus
- stir
- strife
- to-do
- topsy-turvy
- trouble
- tumult
- turbulence
- unrest
- uproar
- violence
- whirl
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.