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Definition of Agitation

Agitation The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation. Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation. Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate. Related Definitions: Act, Action, Adoption, After, Agitated, Agitating, Agitation, Antislavery, Any, Arousing, As, Being, By, Cause, Commotion, Consideration, Controversy, Debate, Discussion, Disturbance, Earnest, Examination, Excitement, Feeling, For, In, Irregular, Is, Itself, Labor, Mind, Moved, Of, One, Or, Perturbation, Physical, Plan, Proposed, Public, Sea, State, Stirring, Storm, Subject, The, To, Tranquillity, Up, Violence, Which, With

Agitation Quotations If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Alfred Adler The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Alfred Adler It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. Lord Byron Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. Wendell Phillips

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