unsettling

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English

Adjective

unsettling (comparative more unsettling, superlative most unsettling)

  1. That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.
    • April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
      More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt []
      adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books

Translations

Verb

unsettling

  1. present participle and gerund of unsettle

Noun

unsettling (plural unsettlings)

  1. The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
    • 2013, Krishna Sen, Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia, page 19:
      But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.