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: […]
Translations
the condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
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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
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