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disturbance

noun
  1. An interruption of regular procedure or of public peace: agitation, commotion, disorder, helter-skelter, stir 1, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar. Informal: flap, to-do. See calm, order
  2. A change in normal place or position: dislocation, displacement, move, movement, rearrangement, shift. See move
  3. Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely: brainsickness, craziness, dementia, derangement, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental illness, psychopathy, unbalance. Psychiatry: mania. Psychology: aberration, alienation. See sane

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