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disturbance

noun
/dɪˈstɜː.bəns/UK/dɪˈstɜɹ.bəns/CA/ɖɪsˈʈər.bᵻns/

Etymology

From Middle English disturbaunce, from Old French destorbance, destourbance, from destourber (“disturb”), from Latin disturbō. By surface analysis, disturb + -ance.

  1. derived from disturbō
  2. derived from destorbance
  3. inherited from disturbaunce

Definitions

  1. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.

  2. Something that disturbs.

    • That guy causes a lot of trouble, you know, he’s such a disturbance.

  3. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.

      • Blue No. 1 and yellow No. 6 may also be toxic to some human cells. And as little as 1 milligram of yellow dye No. 5 may cause irritability, restlessness and sleep disturbances for sensitive children.

    2. A serious mental imbalance or illness.

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Derived

antidisturbance, disturbance regime, emotional disturbance, indisturbance, ipseity disturbance, mental disturbance, nondisturbance, predisturbance, redisturbance, undisturbance

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disturbance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at disturbance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at disturbance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA