disconcertion

In many ways, the case symbolizes a growing power struggle and fuels an atmosphere of disconcertion and mistrust that was previously unknown in Denmark’s academia.

Throw in an "epic 1960s movie voice", which brings a stentorian quality to his stream of fabulation, and physical self-assertion – he looms over his audience – and you have a recipe for instant, amusing disconcertion.

Remembering the trace of disconcertion he had shown, she very much wished to know where Brooke had really been.

An expression of almost ludicrous disconcertion shadowed his discoloured features.

If Leon had been bashful in her presence when he did not comprehend the cause of his disconcertion, having discovered that he loved Agnes, hesitation vanished.