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inquietude

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in⋅qui⋅e⋅tude

  [in-kwahy-i-tood, -tyood]
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–noun
1. restlessness or uneasiness; disquietude.
2. inquietudes, disquieting thoughts: beset by myriad inquietudes.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < LL inquiētūdō. See in- 3 , quietude
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in·qui·e·tude   (ĭn-kwī'ĭ-tōōd', -tyōōd')   
n.  A state of restlessness or uneasiness; disquietude.

[Middle English, disturbance, from Late Latin inquiētūdō, restlessness, from Latin inquiētus, restless : in-, not; see in-1 + quiētus, quiet; see quiet.]
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