Definitions of disturbance

1. a noisy fight

2. a disorderly outburst or tumult; " they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"

3. the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion

4. ( psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness

5. An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.

6. Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.

7. Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult.

8. The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like.

9. Disturber.

10. The interruption of a settled state; uproar; confusion; mental agitation.

11. Agitation: tumult: interruption: perplexity.

12. Agitation; tumult; interruption.

13. The act of disturbing; a public tumult; mental confusion.

14. Any disquiet or interruption of peace; interruption of a settled state of things; tumult; emotion or agitation of the mind; disorder of thoughts; confusion; the hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right.