Restiness

//ˈɹɛstɪnəs// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness. obsolete, uncountable

    "The Snake by restinesse and lying still all Winter, hath a certaine membrane[…]"

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"The Snake by restinesse and lying still all Winter, hath a certaine membrane[…]"

Etymology

From resty + -ness.

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