different between inquietude vs unquietness

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inquietudo.

Noun

inquietude (countable and uncountable, plural inquietudes)

1. A condition of being restless, uneasy or nervous.
   • 1796, Mary Hays, Marilyn L. Brooks ed., Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1999), page 121

     Yet, 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, Emma, Volume III, Chapter 12,^[1]

     The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been—that had been—hard for him to bear.

   • 1830, Mary Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, Volume I, Chapter ,^[2]

     Even as he spoke, steps were heard near the apartment; and while the eyes of both were turned with inquietude on the expected intruder, Lord Lovel entered […]

Related terms

• inquiet
• quietude

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inquietudo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ud?i

Noun

inquietude f (plural inquietudes)

1. restlessness; inquietude (state or condition of being restless)

   Synonym: inquietação

Related terms

• inquietar

English

Etymology

unquiet +? -ness

Noun

unquietness (usually uncountable, plural unquietnesses)

1. (archaic) The state or condition of being unquiet; unease, restlessness.
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 4,^[1]

     He went hence but now,

     And certainly in strange unquietness.

   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part I, Chapter 8, p. 47,^[2]

     For as in the middest of the sea, though a man perceive no sound of that part of the water next him; yet he is well assured, that part contributes as much, to the Roaring of the Sea, as any other part, of the same quantity: so also, though wee perceive no great unquietnesse, in one, or two men; yet we may be well assured, that their singular Passions, are parts of the Seditious roaring of a troubled Nation.

   • 1655, Jeremy Taylor, The Golden Grove, 27th edition, 1735, p. 48,^[3]

     If all be well within, nothing can hurt us from without: For from inordinate Love, and vain Fears, comes all Unquietness of Spirit, and Distraction of Senses.