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Bustle vs Indisposition - What's the difference?

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Bustle is a related term of indisposition.


As nouns the difference between bustle and indisposition

is that bustle is an excited activity; a stir while indisposition is a mild illness, the state of being indisposed.

As a verb bustle

is to move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).

bustle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An excited activity; a stir.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
    • we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence
  • (computing) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
  • (historical) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.

    • Derived terms

    * hustle and bustle

    Verb

  • To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).
    • The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
  • *, II.3.6:
    • I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].
  • To teem or abound (usually followed by with''); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). ''See also bustle with .
    • The train station was bustling with commuters.

    Synonyms

    * (to move busily) flit, hustle, scamper, scurry * (to exhibit an energetic abundance) abound, brim, bristle, burst, crawl, swell, teem

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    indisposition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a mild illness, the state of being indisposed
  • * 1751, Henry Fielding, Amelia
    • I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.
  • a bad mood or disposition
  • * 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays
    • Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to themselves?