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dis·turb·ance
 disturbance
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- pronunciation:
- dih
stuhr
bihns
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
an act or instance of disturbing.
- synonyms:
- agitation, disruption
- similar words:
- annoyance, distraction, interruption, perturbation, storm, turbulence, upheaval, vexation
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| definition 2: |
the condition of being disturbed.
- synonyms:
- agitation, disruption
- antonyms:
- calm
- similar words:
- distraction, inconvenience, interruption, nerve, perturbation, turmoil
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| definition 3: |
something that disturbs.
- synonyms:
- disruption, distraction
- similar words:
- annoyance, bother, inconvenience, interruption, nuisance, vexation
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| definition 4: |
a disruption of public order and tranquillity; commotion.
- synonyms:
- commotion, disorder
- similar words:
- agitation, brouhaha, convulsion, disruption, flutter, fracas, furor, fuss, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, noise, pother, racket, riot, ruckus, rumpus, storm, to-do, tumult, turbulence, unrest, uproar
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| definition 5: |
a disruption of mental clarity and tranquillity.
- similar words:
- agitation, disorder, disruption, distress, inquietude, moil, tumult, worry
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| related words: |
affray, altercation, chaos, consternation, difficulty, fluster, malady, melee, nag, tempest, tremor, wash |
adjective + (n.)disturbance
affective,
anthropogenic,
atmospheric,
behavioral,
biological,
catastrophic,
chronic,
civil,
cognitive,
domestic,
ecological,
electrical,
electromagnetic,
emotional,
extreme,
frequent,
gastrointestinal,
gravitational,
human,
increased,
increasing,
inner,
intense,
intermediate,
large-scale,
localized,
magnetic,
major,
marked,
mental,
mild,
minimal,
minor,
moderate,
natural,
periodic,
physical,
psychiatric,
psychological,
random,
rapid,
respiratory,
sensitive,
serious,
severe,
situational,
slight,
solar,
spatial,
sudden,
susceptible,
total,
transient,
tropical,
violent,
visual,
vulnerable
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verb + (n.)disturbance
accompany, arrest, attribute, cause, characterize, create, distinguish, eat, experience, minimize, provoke, quell, recover, relate, result, sleep
(n.)disturbance
+ verb
affect, alter, arise, associate, mediate, occur, predict, trigger, vary
noun + (n.)disturbance
absence,
adolescent,
alteration,
anxiety,
appetite,
climate,
definition,
depression,
disability,
ecosystem,
effect,
flood,
gait,
gradient,
hurricane,
impairment,
magnitude,
mood,
motor,
noise,
pattern,
personality,
predation,
recovery,
response,
rhythm,
scale,
sign,
sleep,
soil,
symptom,
type,
wake,
wave
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The word disturbance
contains the following parts:
turb
Latin
root
that means confusion
  Example words:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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