# agitation
## English
### Etymology

From French agitation, from Latin agitātiō (“movement, agitation”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ad͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
* (US) IPA: /æ.d͡ʒɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

agitation (countable and uncountable, plural agitations)
* The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.
    During a storm the sea is in agitation.
* A disturbance of personal tranquillity; disturbance of someone's peace of mind.
    Synonym: perturbation
    She causes great agitation within me.
* Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
    the antislavery agitation
    labor agitation
    After this conflict pro-independence agitation temporarily died down.
** 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:[…] religious agitations […]
* (archaic) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
** 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:[…] a logical agitation of the matter […]
** 1732, Jonathan Swift, The Advantages Proposed by Repealing the Sacramental Test:[…] the project now in agitation […]
* putting into motion by shaking or stirring, often to achieve mixing.

#### Synonyms

* emotion, commotion, excitement, trepidation, tremor, perturbation

#### Derived terms

* agitational
* agitationist
* agitprop
* counteragitation
* microagitation

#### Translations
### References

* “agitation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Danish
### Noun

agitation c (singular definite agitationen, plural indefinite agitationer)
* agitation

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “agitation” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agitātiōnem. By surface analysis, agiter +‎ -ation.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ʒi.ta.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

agitation f (plural agitations)
* choppiness (of water), turbulence (in air), swaying (of branch etc.)
* restlessness
* bustle (of street, room etc.); activity
* (nervous) agitation
* (social) unrest

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: agitatie
* → Romanian: agitație
* → Turkish: ajitasyon

### Further reading

* “agitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Swedish
### Noun

agitation c
* agitation (arguing for something in an inflamed, rousing manner (in a political or social context))
* (medicine, psychology) agitation
    psykomotorisk agitationpsychomotor agitation

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | agitation | agitations |
| singular | definite | agitationen | agitationens |
| plural | indefinite | agitationer | agitationers |
| plural | definite | agitationerna | agitationernas |

#### Related terms

* agitator
* agitatorisk
* agitera

### References

* agitation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* agitation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)