disturbance

/dɪˈstɜːrbəns/

意味: 騒動、混乱

例文: Glitter storm caused nap disturbance.
　　  ラメの嵐が昼寝騒動を引き起こした。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: noise disturbance(騒音妨害), public disturbance(公共の妨害), emotional disturbance(感情の乱れ)

定義: 何かが正常に動かなくなることや、平和や静けさが乱されることを指します。たとえば、騒音や混乱が原因で、周囲の人々が不快に感じたり、困ったりする状況です。

disturbanceは約200,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption
Noun: an unhappy and worried mental state
Noun: a disorderly outburst or tumult
Noun: a noisy fight
Noun: the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
Noun: (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Noun: electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The sudden disturbance interrupted our peaceful afternoon picnic.(突然の騒音が私たちの穏やかな午後のピクニックを中断させた。)
Hey, that noise was a major disturbance to my study time!(あの音は私の勉強時間に大きな妨げだった！)
The committee addressed the disturbance promptly to maintain public order.(委員会は公共の秩序を維持するために、迅速に騒音に対処した。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the term `distress’ connotes some degree of perturbation and emotional upset
Noun: he looked around for the source of the disturbance
Noun: there was a disturbance of neural function
Noun: there was too much anger and disturbance
Noun: she didn’t realize the upset she caused me
Noun: they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): affray, commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, folie, fray, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, interference, kerfuffle, mental disorder, mental disturbance, noise, perturbation, psychological disorder, ruffle, to-do, upset

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): activity, agitation, disorder, fight, motion, trouble

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abduction, abocclusion, abruptio placentae, achlorhydria, acholia, achylia, acting, acute brain disorder, adduction, affliction, affray, agitation, aid, ailment, anarchy, attempt, battering, beating, behavior, bladder disorder, body english, brawl, brush, burst, buzz, calibration, cardiovascular disease, celiac disease, ceremony, cheilosis, choking, circumduction, close-quarter fighting, colpoxerosis, concealment, confusion, continuance, control, convulsion, creation, cup of tea, degenerative disorder, demand, discord, dismantling, disturbance, dither, diversion, dogfight, domesticity, duel, dysaphia, dysosmia, dysphagia, dysuria, eating disorder, education, embarrassment, energizing, enjoyment, eurythmy, eye movement, failure, fantods, fencing, fetal movement, fistfight, flit, follow-up, fret, fun, functional disorder, game, gesture, glandular disease, grouping, gunfight, hassle, headshake, hell, hematocolpometra, hematocolpos, hydrocele, hyperactivity, idiopathic disease, immunological disorder, impaction, in-fighting, inclination, instability, inversion, jerk, kick, kneel, knife fight, lamentation, last, laughter, leadership, learning disorder, liveliness, lurch, malocclusion, market, measurement, mental disorder, metabolic disorder, misfortune, music, mystification, negotiation, nervous disorder, noise, occupation, onslaught, opening, operation, organic disorder, organization, perturbation, placement, pleasure, politics, practice, precession, preparation, procedure, prostration, protection, provision, puncture, reach, reciprocation, reclining, release, representation, retraction, retroflection, rioting, role, rotation, rowdiness, rumble, scandal, search, sensory activity, service, set-to, shock, shutting, sin, single combat, sitting, sleep disorder, snap, solo, space walk, speech disorder, sprue, squat, standing, straddle, strangulation, stroke, support, sweep, tailspin, timekeeping, toss, training, turbulence, turn, use, variation, verbalization, vibration, waste, wave, waver, wiggle, work, works, worship, writing, wrongdoing

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): aberration, affective disorder, agitation, anxiety disorder, asperger’s syndrome, background, circus, clutter, commotion, conversion disorder, convulsion, crosstalk, delirium, delusional disorder, disorganization, disruption, dissociative disorder, earthquake, encopresis, fadeout, folie a deux, furor, fuss, havoc, incident, jitter, magnetic storm, melee, neurosis, outburst, personality disorder, psychosomatic disorder, rampage, schizothymia, static, stir, storm, storm center, tumult, upset, white noise

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: disturb, perturb, upset

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: medical, psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: emotional

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun, uncountable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): dis

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, fear, negative, sadness, surprise