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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

activity, actuation, agitation, agony, ailment, anguish, anxiety, anxiousness, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle, churn, commotion, concern, conturbation, didder, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dithers, dynamics, ebullition, embroilment, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, going, heaving, hubbub, hurly-burly, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, maelstrom, malaise, mobilization, moil, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, palpitation, panting, perturbation, pitapat, pitter-patter, quaking, quaver, quavering, quiver, quivering, restiveness, restlessness, roil, rout, row, running, seethe, seething, shakes, shaking, shiver, shivers, shudder, stir, stirring, strife, swirl, throb, throbbing, to-do, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, uneasiness, upset, velocity, worry

Dictionary Results for unrest:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

unrest
    n 1: a state of agitation or turbulent change or development;
         "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social
         unrest" [syn: agitation, ferment, fermentation,
         tempestuousness, unrest]
    2: a feeling of restless agitation

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Unrest \Un*rest"\, n.
   Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness;
   uneasiness; disquietude.
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         Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest!
                                                  --Chaucer.
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         Can calm despair and wild unrest
         Be tenants of a single breast?           --Tennyson.
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