uneasiness

From uneasy +‎ -ness.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈiːzinəs/

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• Hyphenation: un‧easi‧ness

uneasiness (countable and uncountable, plural uneasinesses)

1. The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.

2. An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

     Finding that the afternoon coach was gone, and finding that his uneasiness grew into positive alarm, as obstacles came in his way, he resolved to follow in a post-chaise.

• (being nervous): disease (dis-ease), unease
• (anxiety): see Thesaurus:fear