unsettling

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Adjective

unsettling

1. That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

Translations

• French: dérangeant, inquiétant
• German: beunruhigend
• Italian: inquietante, spiazzante
• Russian: тревожащий
• Spanish: inquietante

Verb

1. present participle of unsettle#English|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.

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