commotion
Other forms: commotions
A commotion is a noisy disturbance. If you're trying to quietly concentrate on reading this, you wouldn't want the person next to you to cause a commotion, or it would distract you.
Commotion, which comes from the Middle French word commocion, means "violent motion, agitation." It can be a disorderly outburst or disruption, like someone yelling in the street at night, or five people arguing about someone talking on a cellphone while a play is being performed in front of them. Commotion can also describe out-of-control movement, like people pushing and shoving to get to the front row of a concert.
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a disorderly outburst or tumultsynonyms: disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-dotypes:earthquakea disturbance that is extremely disruptiveincidenta public disturbancecombustiona state of violent disturbance and excitementtype of:disordera disturbance of the peace or of public order
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the act of making a noisy disturbance
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confused movement
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