uneasiness

noun
/ʌnˈiːzinəs/

Etymology

From uneasy + -ness.

  1. inherited from unethe
  2. inherited from unesy
  3. suffixed as uneasiness — “uneasy + ness

Definitions

  1. The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.

    • Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
  2. An anxious state of mind

    An anxious state of mind; anxiety.

    • Finding that the afternoon coach was gone, and finding that his uneasiness grew into positive alarm, as obstacles came in his way, he resolved to follow in a post-chaise.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at uneasiness. 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.

01uneasiness02restless03uneasy04disturbed05alarmed06anxious07anxiety

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

7 hops · closes at uneasiness

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