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the body's refusal to accept that good enough is good enough.
means A state of unease or agitation in which you can't settle, relax, or stay still — physically or mentally.
from Built from "rest" plus the negating suffix "-less" plus "-ness," so it's literally the quality of being without rest. "Rest" comes from Old English "ræst," meaning repose or a resting place — a word with deep Germanic roots, a cousin of German "Rast." "-less" is the same old negator that strips "hope" to "hopeless," and "-ness" bottles the whole condition into a noun. The word is exactly what it looks like: rest, denied, made into a name.
- evolution
- kept ancestors moving toward food and away from teeth
- clinical name
- akathisia means literally inability to sit
- restless legs
- affects up to 10 percent of people
- creative fuel
- discontent powers most invention and migration
- midnight tell
- spikes when the mind outpaces the day's exhaustion
marie curie's laboratory moves — scientist relocated her research 4 times across paris and vienna while pursuing radioactivity discoveries, 1898-1911