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disturbance

  • noun
  • dis·tur·bance
  • /dɪˈstɜː.bəns/

The act of disturbing, being disturbed.

Other meanings

  1. Something that disturbs.

    “That guy causes a lot of trouble, you know, he’s such a disturbance.”

  2. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.

Related words

  • antidisturbance
  • indisturbance
  • nondisturbance
  • predisturbance
  • redisturbance
  • undisturbance
  • disturbance regime
  • ipseity disturbance
  • emotional disturbance
  • mental disturbance

Word history

From Latin "disturbō".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “disturbance” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.