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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Discomposure \Dis'com*po"sure\ (?; 135), noun
1. The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
No discomposure stirred her features. --Akenside.
2. Discordance; disagreement of parts. [Obs.] --Boyle.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
discomposure
noun
1: anxious embarrassment [syn: {discomfiture}, {disconcertion}, {disconcertment}]
2: a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure [ant: {composure}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
190 Moby Thesaurus words for "discomposure": abashment, agitation, angst, anguish, anxiety, baffle, bafflement, befuddlement, bewilderment, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, boredom, bother, botheration, brouhaha, bustle, chagrin, chaos, cheerlessness, churn, cloud, commotion, confoundment, confusion, conturbation, convulsion, daze, derangement, dilemma, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomfort, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, discontent, discountenance, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, dislike, dislocation, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorientation, displeasure, disproportion, disquiet, disquietude, disruption, dissatisfaction, distress, disturbance, dread, dullness, ebullition, embarrassment, embroilment, emptiness, enigma, ennui, entropy, excitement, existential woe, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fix, flap, flatness, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, fog, foment, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, fuss, grimness, haphazardness, haze, hubbub, hurly-burly, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, inquietude, insanity, irregularity, jam, jitters, joylessness, jumble, jumpiness, lack of pleasure, maelstrom, malaise, maze, mess, misarrangement, mist, moil, mortification, most admired disorder, muddle, muddlement, mystery, nausea, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nongratification, nonplus, nonsatisfaction, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, painfulness, perplexity, perturbation, pickle, plight, pother, predicament, problem, promiscuity, promiscuousness, pucker, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, randomness, restlessness, riddle, roil, rout, row, ruffle, savorlessness, scrape, seethe, seething, shuffle, shuffling, spleen, staleness, stew, stir, sweat, swirl, swivet, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tizzy, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unassuredness, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unpleasure, unrest, unsatisfaction, unsettlement, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vexation of spirit
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