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Restiveness   /rˈɛstɪvnəs/   Listen
Restiveness

noun
1.
The anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters.  Synonyms: jitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness.
2.
Characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright.  Synonym: skittishness.





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"Restiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... with disadvantage; as Tarquinius, that gave for the third part of Sibylla's books the treble price, when he might at first have had all three for the simple. But from whatsoever root or cause this restiveness of mind proceedeth, it is a thing most prejudicial; and nothing is more politic than to make the wheels of our mind concentric and voluble ...
— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon


Words linked to "Restiveness" :   anxiety, restive


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