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Agitation

noun

A mental state of extreme emotional disturbance.

A state of agitation or turbulent change or development. Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest. "Social unrest"

The feeling of being agitated; not calm.

Disturbance usually in protest. Synonyms: excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval.

The act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously).

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"Agitation" Quotes from Famous Books

... The continued agitation of the question relative to the best mode of keeping and disbursing the public money still injuriously affects the business of the country. The suspension of specie payments in 1837 rendered the use of ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren • Martin van Buren

... to ameliorate evils seemed to put him into a passion. Every reformer appeared to him to be a blind teacher of the blind. Exeter Hall, then the scene of every variety of social and religious and political discussion, was to him a veritable pandemonium. Everybody at that period of agitation and reform was giving lectures, and everybody went to hear them; and Carlyle ridiculed them all alike as pedlers of nostrums to heal diseases which were incurable. He lived in an atmosphere of disdain. "The English people," said ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII • John Lord

... general officer was thrown from his horse; and a universal agitation among a group of ladies evinced that they were in a panic. Soon the name of the general, Count de Bourmont, was heard pronounced; and a faint shriek, followed by a half swoon from one of the fair dames, announced her deep interest in ...

— The Idler in France • Marguerite Gardiner

... designed it or not, the contrast between his levity and Anna's agitation convinced Flora, Madame, all, that the weapon's only value to the lovers was sentimental. "Or religious," thought the detective, whose adjectives could be as inaccurate as his divinations. While he conjectured, Anna spoke once more to ...

— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable

... Thenceforward he hid his agitation by complete composure. No man is strong enough to bear such sudden alternations from the height of happiness to the depths of wretchedness. So he had caught a glimpse of happy life the better to ...

— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac

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