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English noun: disturbance | |||
| 1. | disturbance (event) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | ||
| Samples | The term `distress' connotes some degree of perturbation and emotional upset. He looked around for the source of the disturbance. There was a disturbance of neural function. | ||
| Synonyms | perturbation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | activity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bother, fuss, hassle, magnetic storm, trouble | ||
| 2. | disturbance (state) an unhappy and worried mental state | ||
| Samples | There was too much anger and disturbance. She didn't realize the upset she caused me. | ||
| Synonyms | perturbation, upset | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | agitation | ||
| 3. | disturbance (state) a disorderly outburst or tumult | ||
| Samples | They were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused. | ||
| Synonyms | commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disorder | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | convulsion, earthquake, garboil, incident, splash, stir, storm, storm center, storm centre, tempest, tumult, tumultuousness, turmoil, upheaval, uproar | ||
| 4. | disturbance (act) a noisy fight | ||
| Synonyms | affray, fray, ruffle | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | combat, fight, fighting, scrap | ||
| 5. | disturbance (act) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | motility, motion, move, movement | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | agitation, battle royal, carnival, circus, commotion, derangement, din, disorganisation, disorganization, disruption, excitement, furor, furore, havoc, hullabaloo, mayhem, melee, outburst, overthrow, perturbation, rampage, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrimmage, tumult, tumultuous disturbance, turmoil, upheaval, upset, violent disorder | ||
| 6. | disturbance (state) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | ||
| Synonyms | folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disorder, upset | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | aberration, affective disorder, anxiety disorder, Asperger's syndrome, conversion disorder, conversion hysteria, conversion reaction, delirium, delusional disorder, dissociative disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, encopresis, folie a deux, major affective disorder, neurosis, neuroticism, personality disorder, psychoneurosis, psychosomatic disorder, schizothymia | ||
| Domain category | psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology | ||
| 7. | disturbance (event) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | ||
| Synonyms | interference, noise | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | trouble | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | atmospheric static, atmospherics, background, background signal, clutter, crosstalk, fadeout, jitter, static, white noise, XT | ||
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