Agitation

Noun

 * 1) The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the  state of being moved with violence, or with irregular  action; commotion.
 * 2) A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation.
 * 3) Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
 * 4) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.

Adjectives for Agitation
revolutionary; indescribable; gentle; violent; profane; internal;   nervous;  legitimate; gloomy; feverish; throbbing; vigorous; indignant; preliminary; incessant; convulsive; recurrent; destructive; inner; student; bewildered; smothered; visible; intellectual; marked; wearying; unflinching; wholesale; righteous; wide-spread.

Verbs for Agitation
accustom to; admire; allay;  cease; discuss; flutter in; infect with; introduce; keep in; kindle; menace by; express; produce; provoke; resume; stir; set up; understand; witness; arises; arouses; disorganizes; disturbs; excites; ignites; impassions; moves; perturbs; stirs; terrifies; unsettles.

Thesaurus
ado; aggravation; all-overs; angst; animation; anxiety; anxiety hysteria; anxiety neurosis; anxious bench; anxious concern; anxious seat; anxiousness; apprehension; apprehensiveness; arousal; arousing; attack of nerves; bluster; bother; botheration; brawl; broil; brouhaha; buck fever; burst; bustle; cacophony; cankerworm of care; care; case of nerves; chaos; chills of fear; churning; cold creeps; cold shivers; cold sweat; commotion; concern; concernment; confusion; creeps; disquiet; disquietude; distress; disturbance; dither; dread; ebullience; ebullition; eddy; effervescence; electrification; embroilment; exacerbation; exasperation; excessive irritability; excitation; excitement; exhilaration; fanaticism; fear; fear and trembling; feery-fary; ferment; fermentation; fidgetiness; fidgets; firing; fit; flap; flurry; fluster; flutter; flutteriness; fomentation; foofaraw; foreboding; forebodingness; frenzy; fume; furor; furore; fury; fuss; fussiness; galvanization; goose bumps; gooseflesh; heartquake; horripilation; hubbub; hullabaloo; hurly-burly; hurry; hurry-scurry; incitation; incitement; inflammation; infuriation; inquietude; instigation; irritation; jimjams; lather; lathering up; maelstrom; malaise; misgiving; morbid excitability; nerves; nervosity; nervous stomach; nervous strain; nervous tension; nervousness; overanxiety; palpitation; pandemonium; panic; panickiness; passion; pell-mell; pep rally; pep talk; perturbation; pins and needles; pother; provocation; pucker; quaking; quiver of terror; rabble-rousing; racket; rage; restlessness; row; ruckus; ruffle; rumpus; scramble; shaking; shivers; solicitude; spasm; spell of nerves; spurt; stage fright; state of nerves; steaming up; stew; stimulation; stimulus; stir; stirring; stirring up; stirring-up; storminess; strain; suspense; sweat; swirl; swirling; tempestuousness; tension; thrill of fear; tic; to-do; trepidation; trepidity; trouble; tumult; tumultuousness; turbulence; turmoil; twitching; uneasiness; unquiet; unquietness; uproar; upset; vellication; vexation; vortex; whipping up; whirl; wildness; working up; yeastiness; zeal; zealousness

Etymology
From agitatio:: compare with French agitation:.

Pronunciation




Synonyms

 * emotion, commotion, excitement, trepidation, tremor, perturbation

Translations

 * Bulgarian: вълнение, възбуда,  бъркане,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * German: Aufwühlung, Agitation


 * Greek: αναστάτωση, αναταραχή, αναβρασμός
 * Latin:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Scottish Gaelic: mì-shuaimhneas
 * Spanish: inquietud