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Unsettling vs Jittery - What's the difference?

unsettling | jittery |

As adjectives the difference between unsettling and jittery

is that unsettling is that makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing while jittery is nervy, jumpy, on edge.

As a verb unsettling

is .

As a noun unsettling

is the weakening of some previously established system or norm.

unsettling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    jittery

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • nervy, jumpy, on edge
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Dominic Fifield , title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start. }}