disquietude

Questions about disquietude

What does disquietude mean?

disquietude means "feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable".

How many syllables are in disquietude?

disquietude has 4 syllables and divides as di-squi-e-tude under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for disquietude?

Close synonyms include edginess, uneasiness, inquietude. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disquietude a common word?

disquietude is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.