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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 restiveness
 倔強;難駕御;亂鬧

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rest·ive a.  . Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back.
    Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as some horses do.   --E. Philips (1658).
    The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag him [Abraham Holmes] to the gallows became restive, and went back.   --Macaulay.
 2. Inactive; sluggish. [Obs.]
 3. Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.
 4. Uneasy; restless; averse to standing still; fidgeting about; -- applied especially to horses.
 -- Rest*ive, adv. -- Rest*ive*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 restiveness
      n 1: the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters [syn:
            jitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness]
      2: characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright
         [syn: skittishness]