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uneasiness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being uneasy; restlessness; disquietude; anxiety.

The quality of making uneasy; discomfort; as, the uneasiness of the road.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. Jean de La Bruyère

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. William Hazlitt

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. William Shenstone

If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please. Johann Kaspar Lavater

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow. H. G. Wells

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not. Aleister Crowley

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