Plural of 'agitation'; multiple instances of disturbing action, emotional disturbance, or organized attempts to provoke social change.
From Latin 'agitatio' (a driving, motion, or disturbance). The plural '-s' is a basic English inflection that likely descends from Proto-Indo-European number markers that also generated plurals in most European languages.
The plural form 'agitations' often appears in historical texts describing periods of social unrest—'the agitations of the 1960s' or 'labor agitations'—making it a way to group multiple related incidents of disturbance into one concept.
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