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Unsettling vs Restless - What's the difference?

unsettling | restless |

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

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
  • * 2013 , Krishna Sen, ?Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia (page 19)
  • 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)
  • Not allowing or affording rest.
  • The night before his wedding was a restless one.
  • Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.
  • He was a restless child.
    She sat, restless and nervous, and tried to concentrate.
  • Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.
  • A restless ambition.
  • Deprived of rest or sleep.
  • They remained restless , sitting by the window the entire night.

    Derived terms

    * restlessly * restlessness

    Synonyms

    * antsy

    References

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