restlessness

restless | American Dictionary

restless
adjective
us/ˈrest·ləs/
moving because you are unable to relax, esp. because you are worried or bored, or (of an activity) having a lot of movement as a characteristic:
He dozed off to a restless sleep.
The audience began to get restless.
Restless can also mean not satisfied with your situation and wanting a change:
The opposition parties provide no clear alternative for restless voters.

restlessly

adverbus/ˈrest·ləs·li/
I wandered restlessly around the apartment.

restlessness

noun[ U ]us/ˈrest·ləs·nəs/
He paced back and forth out of sheer restlessness.

Examples of restless

restless
Growing ever more restless, dashing back and forth, the child waits for a possible chance to get hold of the cart.
The synthesised bass is extremely restless, moving mostly by tritone and half-step, and traversing the chromatic aggregate save for one pitch.
Older children may be restless and fidgety, but not overly hyperactive.
He is always restless, and reels with a natural intoxication.
The deconstructed heart is ever restless, yet the theological virtues stand only as perpetual temptations to rest in inauthenticity.
In 1743, as the city quickly grew restless from a wave of soaring prices, grumbling voices were heard everywhere.
He made eye contact with his wife and his restless movements diminished.
We are awash in restless evangelicals, profligate of stern and apocalyptic advice.
Perhaps the restless quest to rediscover age-old communities is an integral element of the rootless experience of modernity.
The opening elegy, starting from restless repetition of a single pitch, opens out to a refined, rich design.
These were not merely new urban proletariat but also newly dispersed and restless peoples on the forest periphery.
Five months after administration of amoxapine, she suddenly became restless and moved her arms and upper part of the body back and forth.
On admission, he was tachypneic and restless, weighing 5100 g (10th centile).
The great wars and their atrocities had receded from memory, and want of war now gave way to restless navel-gazing.
What is nearness if it is even repelled by the restless abolition of distances?
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