Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of agitating or the state of being agitated.
- n. Extreme emotional disturbance; perturbation.
- n. The stirring up of public interest in a matter of controversy, such as a political or social issue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated. The state of being shaken or moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion: as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.
- n. Disturbance of the mind; perturbation; excitement of passion.
- n. Examination of a subject in controversy; deliberation; discussion; debate.
- n. The act of arousing public attention to a political or social question by speeches, etc. Synonyms Agitation, Trepidation, Tremor, Emotion, excitement, flutter. Tremor is, in its literal use, wholly physical; it may be in a part of the body or the whole; it is generally less violent than trepidation. Trepidation and agitation are more often used of the mind than of the body. But all three words may express states either of the body or the mind, or of both at once through reflex influence. Trepidation is generally the result of fear; it is the excited anticipation of speedy disaster, penalty, etc. Agitation may be retrospective and occasioned by that which is pleasant; it includes the meaning of trepidation and a part of that of emotion. Emotion is used only of the mind; it is the broadest and highest of these words, covering all movements of feeling, whether of pleasure or pain, from agitation to the pleasure that the mind may take in abstract truth.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.
- n. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation.
- n. Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
- n. Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.
- n. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation.
- n. Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
- n. Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
WordNet 3.0
- n. disturbance usually in protest
- n. a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
- n. the feeling of being agitated; not calm
- n. a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance
- n. the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously)
Etymologies
- From French agitation, from Latin agitātiō ("movement, agitation"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The question is quite ripe _for fresh agitation_ and from experience I find that that agitation _must_ be started by a debate in Parliament.”
“The majority of U.S. - China trade agitation is caused by imposes signifcant costs on this one relatively tiny huge part of the U.S. economy.”
“I will not fail to tell you further of all that is in agitation, as soon as I have Leisure, but I am rather pressed for time.”
“Moreover, mention of communal divide during the agitation is totally uncalled for.”
“There was a time when no one thought grounding off the table could be performed as it now is; the writer well remembers when it was in agitation, to print two reds, and two olaves at the house where first executed.”
“Conversely, when ethereal energy becomes trapped in the throat chakra, and builds to excessive levels, it can result in hyperthyroidism, or overactivity of the thyroid, which is characterized by agitation and hyperactivity.”
“She stirred, though it hardly deserved the word agitation, feeble and uncoordinated.”
“If an inhibited child has an "insecure" tie with an unaccepting mother, however, his agitation is fed by her discomfort; the more she urges him to play with the clown, the greater his stress.”
“Without being disturbed by the intricate path described by a grain within a given time, these physicists characterize the agitation by the rectilinear segment joining the point of departure with the point of arrival, the segment being on an average greater as the agitation is livelier.”
“What was even worse than having to focus his mind on a series of niggling jobs was the need to conceal his agitation from the telescreen.”
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imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Poetrie: The Map
by Elizabeth Bishop
Land lies in water; it is shadowed green.
Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges
showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges
where weeds hang ...map-maker, delicate, topography, character, colors, assigned, investigate, agitation, hare, conformation, mapped, smoothness and 23 more...
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A Christmas Carol vocabulary
ironmongery, unhallowed, residuary, ramparts, entreaty, trifle, phantoms, intimation, impoverished, miser, alienated, morose and 82 more...
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English 9 Vocabulary #5
agitation, aloof, apparition, benefactor, cope, genealogy, moor, obsession, palatial, plaintive
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