Unsettling vs Restless - What's the difference?
unsettling | restless |
The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
* 2013 , Krishna Sen, ?Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia (page 19)
Not allowing or affording rest.
Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.
Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.
Deprived of rest or sleep.
As adjectives the difference between unsettling and restless
is that unsettling is that makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing while restless is not allowing or affording rest.As a verb unsettling
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun unsettling
is the weakening of some previously established system or norm.unsettling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.
restless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The night before his wedding was a restless one.
- He was a restless child.
- She sat, restless and nervous, and tried to concentrate.
- A restless ambition.
- They remained restless , sitting by the window the entire night.