unsettlement

unsettlement
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1. : an act, process, or instance of unsettling

in the teaching of foreign languages there has been at least some unsettlement in consequence of army courses — Language

did not relish the theological unsettlement that came with the advance of scientific inquiry — V.L.Parrington

2. : the quality or state of being unsettled

the disturbance and unsettlement that now marks … man's life — John Dewey


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