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, 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: […]

• inquiet
• quietude

Learned borrowing from Latin inquiētūdō.

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

inquietude f (plural inquietudes)

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

   Synonym: inquietação

• inquietar