Inquietude

Full definition of inquietude

Noun

1. A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous
• 1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., (1999), page 121Yet, 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, Jane Austen, , page 395The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable