uneasiness

noun

un·​easiness

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1

: the quality or state of being uneasy:

a

: mental or spiritual discomfort : distress, perturbation

the uneasiness that our most generous … ideals have their roots in childhood guilts

—Irwin Edman

b

: a feeling of worry, apprehension, or foreboding : anxiety, disquiet

reluctant to be awake … her uneasiness amounted almost to alarm

—Jean Stafford

c

: restlessness, instability

the misery and uneasiness of the incompletely assimilated

—Edward Shils

d

: physical discomfort : malaise, queasiness

conscious of a certain uneasiness in the organs

—Arnold Bennett

e

: awkwardness

uneasiness of diction

—R. W. Southern

f

: embarrassment, discomposure

conscious of her uneasiness among these sophisticated women

2

archaic : hardship, vicissitude

without these uneasinesses to mingle with these benefits, I might be too much puffed up

—Samuel Richardson

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