|ən+ noun
Etymology: Middle English unese, from un- (I) + ese ease
1. : mental or spiritual discomfort:
a. : vague dissatisfaction misgiving
my unease over the lack of stylistic assurance — R.D.Darrell
b. : anxiety and foreboding : disquiet
worry and unease harried her for the next weeks — Adria Langley
c. : emotional strain : tension
a sense of menace, of unease runs through their conversation — T.H.White b. 1915
d. : lack of ease (as in social relations) : embarrassment
unease in the presence of … the great man — H.S.Canby
2. obsolete : physical discomfort
such unease as in a coach … in passing over a furrow — Thomas Hobbes
3. : awkwardness , uncomfortableness
the unease of their garments — William Faulkner
the unease of this divorce of tradition from environment — Times Literary Supplement