fidgetiness

• “When we need a rest, our bodies sends us clear signals such as fidgetiness, hunger, drowsiness, and loss of focus.”

  The Huffington Post: Tony Schwartz: The 90-Minute Solution: How Building in Periods of Renewal Can Change Your Work and Your Life (POLL) (VIDEO)

• “For the most part, Mr. DiSpirito—a former reality-TV star who's a bit boyish himself—jibes well with children, his quick-talking able to keep up with their attention spans and occasional fidgetiness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Chef Dishes Out Lessons on Healthy Eating

• “I posted a comment on Slate, remarking on McCain's blinking, and fidgetiness and someone replied with the same meme; it's because he was a POW.”

  Obama Leads By Over Five Points In Pre-Debate Tracking Polls

• “We saw a fantastic eye doctor who did well with him and his fidgetiness.”

  Glasses

• “I wondered where this fidgetiness came from compared to when she and I were just alone.”

  Fictionaut: Two Lives

• “And while these medications may provide welcome relief to some RLS patients, the ads could leave anyone who ever suffered fidgetiness when trying to go to sleep to wonder whether he or she has RLS and should seek treatment.”

  Consumer Reports: Finally, an antidote to TV drug ads

• “On a side note, I wonder how many cases of childhood fibro are diagnosed ADD because of the fidgetiness and trouble paying attention issues--the inability to sit still because of pain, not brain focus trouble.”

  Insomnia

• “I had growing pains, trouble sleeping, fidgetiness while sitting, hand and arm pain, etc throughout childhood--but would go years without.”

  Insomnia

• “Fancy was stationary upstairs, receiving her layers of clothes and adornments, and answering by short fragments of laughter which had more fidgetiness than mirth in them, remarks that were made from time to time by Mrs. Dewy and Mrs. Penny, who were assisting her at the toilet, Mrs. Day having pleaded a queerness in her head as a reason for shutting herself up in an inner bedroom for the whole morning.”

  Under the Greenwood Tree

• ““Okay, okay,” he said with increasing fidgetiness, “—how about a sniff then?””

  Simon & Schuster: How To Kill Your Boyfriend (In Ten Easy Steps)

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