restlessness

rest·less  (rstls)

adj.

1. Marked by a lack of quiet, repose, or rest: spent a restless night.

2. Not able to rest, relax, or be still: a restless child.

3. Never still or motionless: the restless sea. See Usage Note at restive.

---

restless·ly adv.

restless·ness n.

---

Restlessness 

1. Always fidgeting around to go, like a horse in an antbed —Elmer Kelton
2. Fidgeted as though the skin on her back were as a plucked fowl’s in a poulterer’s shop window —Virginia Woolf
3. Fidgety as a child —Richard Wilbur
4. Fidgety, like a rabbit’s nose —or a commuter —Don Marquis
5. Fitful as a cautery —Diane Ackerman
6. I’m as restless as a willow in a windstorm, I’m as jumpy as a puppet on a string —Oscar Hammerstein II, opening lines for “It Might As Well Be Spring” from State Fair

   “It Might As Well Be Spring” is a particularly outstanding example of Hammerstein’s mastery of the light-hearted simile. The lyrics also compare a nightingale without a song to a feeling of discontentment, a spider to busyness and a baby on a swing to a feeling of giddiness.

7. As impatient as a wedding dick —American colloquialism
8. (It is a night like many another with the sky now a bit) impatient for today to be over like a bored salesgirl shifting from foot to stockinged foot —John Ashberry
9. Pacing up and down like an animal in a cage —Elizabeth Taylor
10. (Walking around) restless as a big animal in the lowering weather —Elizabeth Spencer
11. Restless as a rolling stone —Anon
12. Restless as sharp desire —Arthur C. Benson
13. Restless as Ulysses —William Makepeace Thackeray
14. Restless like a man running downhill who cannot keep on his legs unless he runs on, and will inevitably fall if he stops —Arthur Schopenhauer
15. A restless mind, like a rolling stone, gathers nothing but dirt and mire —John Balguy

    See Also: MIND

16. Seemed always looking for a place, like one who goes to choose a grave —Stephen Crane
17. (Settled on the couch,) shifting and fluttering like birds in a nest —Peter Meinke
18. Squirming as though bitten by bugs —Bernard Malamud
19. Squirm like a country mule hitched beside the railroad track —American colloquialism, attributed to South
20. Tossed all night like a man running from himself —Paige Mitchell
21. Wriggling in her place, as if her chair was hot —Frank Swinnerton

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	restlessness - the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active; "the restlessness of the wind" mobility - the quality of moving freely
	2.	restlessness - a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay impatience annoyance, botheration, irritation, vexation - the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
	3.	restlessness - a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness" fidget, fidgetiness agitation - the feeling of being agitated; not calm impatience - a restless desire for change and excitement
	4.	restlessness - inability to rest or relax or be still queasiness, uneasiness nervousness - a sensitive or highly strung temperament jactation, jactitation - (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness

---

restlessness

noun

1. movement, activity, turmoil, unrest, instability, bustle, turbulence, hurry, transience, inconstancy, hurry-scurry, unsettledness increasing sounds of restlessness

2. restiveness, anxiety, disturbance, nervousness, disquiet, agitation, insomnia, jitters (informal), uneasiness, edginess, heebie-jeebies (slang), jumpiness, fretfulness, ants in your pants (slang), fitfulness, inquietude, worriedness She complained of hyperactivity and restlessness.

Translations

restlessness [ˈrestlɪsnɪs] N

1. (= unsettled feeling) → agitación f, inquietud f

2. (= fidgety feeling) → agitación f

3. (= discontent) → agitación f

restlessness [ˈrɛstləsnɪs] n

(= impatience and boredom) → agitation f

(= fidgeting) → agitation f

restlessness

n (= unsettled manner) → Unruhe f; (= not wanting to stay in one place) → Rastlosigkeit f

restlessness [ˈrɛstlɪsnɪs] n (of person) → irrequietezza; (of crowd) → agitazione f, nervosismo