Agitation vs Earthquake - What's the difference?
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The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.
A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation.
Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
* (rfdate) :
Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
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A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
Agitation is a related term of earthquake.
As nouns the difference between agitation and earthquake
is that agitation is while earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.agitation
English
(wikipedia agitation)Noun
(en noun)- After a storm the sea is in agitation .
- She causes great agitation within me.
- ''the antislavery agitation
- ''labor agitation
- After this conflict pro-independence agitation temporarily died down.
Synonyms
* emotion, commotion, excitement, trepidation, tremor, perturbationReferences
* ----earthquake
English
(wikipedia earthquake)Noun
(en noun)- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.