What's the difference between fidgety and restless?

Fidgety


Definition:

  • (a.) Restless; uneasy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is speculated that 'fidgety' movements may be related to a postnatal calibration of the proprioceptive system.
  • (2) The transformation of GM from a 'writhing' character into a 'fidgety' character was related more closely to postmenstrual than to postnatal age.
  • (3) When all these factors were entered into a final model, only five remained: fidgety, abnormal behavior, and three measures of family disruption or disadvantage--crowding, family problems, and being removed from the family and placed in the care of the local authority.
  • (4) Only fidgety character movements occur earlier in preterm infants.
  • (5) Even though he was restless and fidgety, he smiled at her.
  • (6) He was slightly less fidgety than usual, only doing his ostentatious callisthenics once a minute rather than every 20 seconds.
  • (7) But the world's most popular man was getting fidgety beneath this heavily gilded Foreign Office ceiling.
  • (8) "Drugs, guns, girls: it's not a bad package," grins Jorge Medina, a rake-thin, fidgety 17-year-old gangster.
  • (9) But when I was chatting with Susan Cain backstage I was the one so nervous and fidgety I destroyed my TED ID badge.
  • (10) I was never super-depressed, but at one point I thought it was coming.” At this point she dispatches Marcel, fidgety and bored, to his nanny.
  • (11) Vladimir Putin was uncharacteristically fidgety as he spoke to supporters at the United Russia headquarters, as polls showed that voters had delivered a harsh blow to his party in parliamentary elections that were widely seen as a test of his personal popularity.
  • (12) All too often, restless, fidgety children who do not sit still or pay attention at school, and who may be disruptive and difficult to manage, are labelled 'hyperactive' by their teachers.
  • (13) Dornan has a natural, fidgety intensity – "a doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system" – and in The Fall he showed that he could twist the same pent-up fervour that was sexy in a Calvin Klein campaign into something deeply unnerving.
  • (14) During the first 2 months general movements (GM) change from movements with a so-called 'writhing' character, which have a tight appearance, a relatively slow speed and a limited amplitude, into GM with a 'fidgety' character, which consist of an ongoing flow of small, elegant movements.
  • (15) There was only a suggestion that naltrexone reduced fidgety and hyperactive behavior and tended to alleviate overall symptomatology in older children.
  • (16) It's a perfect little two-hander, Schwartzman strange, fidgety and sad, Portman enigmatic, elegant and sad.
  • (17) The 'writhing' character of the GM is gradually broken down into a so-called 'fidgety' quality.
  • (18) But Jack is fidgety: "I shouldn't rightly be hanging around here," he says, truce or not.
  • (19) Police officers thought that De Menezes looked suspicious because he changed buses and looked fidgety, which is apparently how a well-trained terrorist would behave.
  • (20) • Doodle I'm very fidgety, and I seem to work best when my hands are occupied with something other than what I'm thinking about.

Restless


Definition:

  • (a.) Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child.
  • (a.) Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects.
  • (a.) Deprived of rest or sleep.
  • (a.) Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.
  • (a.) Not affording rest; as, a restless chair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
  • (2) Twelve days following discontinuation of the drug, the patient continued to experience diarrhea, restlessness, emotional lability, and anxiety.
  • (3) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
  • (4) He was admitted to the Hitachi General Hospital because of finger tremor, restlessness and urinary incontinence.
  • (5) The restless legs syndrome is a sensory and motor disorder of evening, repose, and sleep.
  • (6) Seven patients suffering from restless legs syndrome (RLS) and periodic movements in sleep (PMS) were investigated before and after treatment with L-Dopa.
  • (7) There have even been signs that Löw is becoming slightly restless, having started to criticise players in public, something that would have been unthinkable a few years back.
  • (8) After a restless night I unwound the trade the following morning at a small profit.
  • (9) The feeling of restlessness and fatigue started to take its toll and I spent more and more time alone.
  • (10) We conclude that the restless mutation alters a Ca2+-activated potassium conductance other than the one previously described.
  • (11) However, by 1994 the increasingly restless veteran jock was lured away again to Capital, where he could be heard crashing his way through Pick of the Pops Take Three at weekends, and to Virgin Radio, which took up his rock show.
  • (12) Ratings on visual analogue scales showed that metoclopramide caused statistically significant (P less than 0.01 difference from placebo) restlessness and slight but significantly less (P less than 0.05 difference from placebo) feeling of happiness.
  • (13) Variations in MAO activity were not significantly associated with the 65 clinical variables analyzed, although there was a tendency for patients in the low-MAO group to have more severely impaired reality testing, more paranoid and grandiose delusions, better prognostic scores, and less restlessness.
  • (14) The clinical symptoms of acute toxication are similar for all studied phenols (restlessness, unsteadiness, clonic tremor, paresis and paralysis of extremities, and death).
  • (15) of exposure, but two of these had been rather restless throughout the session.
  • (16) Hyperkinesis refers to a combination of traits that typically include: overactivity; restlessness; short attention span; distractability; low frustration tolerance; impulsiveness.
  • (17) All the groups showed significant pre- to post-treatment reductions in sweating, palpitations, restlessness, dry mouth, muscular tension, nausea, loss of appetite and upset stomach and the extent of these reductions were not different for the different treatments.
  • (18) The individual number of pathological scores showed a decrease already within the first treatment week and a further decrease by the end of the trial, especially for the items of capriciousness, obstinacy, irritability and restlessness.
  • (19) Subjective symptoms of venous hypertension were assessed by an analogue scale line considering four symptoms: swelling sensation, restless lower extremity, pain and cramps, and tiredness.
  • (20) It includes gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea and diarrhea, headache, dizziness, and restlessness.