- a disturbing or being disturbed
- any departure from normal
- anything that disturbs
- the state of being worried, troubled, or anxious
- commotion; disorder
Origin of disturbance
Middle English from Old French distourbance
noun
- Kids playing music when you are trying to nap is an example of a disturbance.
- A riot to protest unfair political treatment is an example of a disturbance.
- A severe mental illness such as bipolar disorder that interrupts normal brain function is an example of a mental disturbance.
The definition of a disturbance is an interruption of what should be going on, or a bothersome intrusion.
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noun
- a. The act of disturbing: a disturbance of lake sediments.b. The condition of being disturbed: “The forest … is in various stages of disturbance. Only the biggest trees … have been left standing” ( Alex Shoumatoff )
- Something that disturbs, as a commotion, scuffle, or public tumult.
- Mental or emotional unbalance or disorder.
- A variation in normal wind conditions.
- Geology Folding or faulting that affects a relatively large area.
- Physics An alteration or displacement of a region of a medium from its equilibrium state.
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Noun
(plural disturbances)
- The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
- Something that disturbs.
- That guy causes a lot of trouble, you know, he's such a disturbance.
- An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
- (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.
Origin
Middle English, from Old French destorbance
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Sentence Examples
- Along the axis of the disturbance, and the mission station of Wairoa (8 m.
- "There is a disturbance in the uh, basketball game, as you call it," the Watcher said.
- He determined, therefore, to oppose any further disturbance of the balance of power in favour of Germany, and when the treaty of Skierniewice expired in 1887 he declined to renew it.
- It was clearly a gift productive of much disturbance in the Church (1 Cor.
- These changes may be brought about by external causes, such as the attacks of insects or of fungi, alterations in external conditions, &c., or by some unexplained internal disturbance of the morphological equilibrium.
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