restlessness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REST'LESSNESS, noun 1. Uneasiness; unquietness; a state of disturbance or agitation, either of body or mind. 2. Want of sleep or rest; uneasiness. 3. Motion; agitation; as the restlessness of the magnetic needle.
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