restiveness.

1. An unsettled impatience that makes remaining still or accepting restraint difficult.

2. An animal’s unwillingness to move forward or comply with control.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• growing restiveness
• restiveness in the crowd
• signs of restiveness

On the page

Restiveness spread through the queue each time the doors opened without admitting anyone.

He concealed his restiveness badly, folding and unfolding the same receipt.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.