Thesaurus: stillness
The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.
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Definitions
- n. The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.
- n. Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
- n. (poetic) tranquil silence
- n. calmness without winds
- n. a state of no motion or movement
- 1. The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity. Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages. J. A. Symonds. 2. Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity. The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted. Shak.
- n:100 n. calmness without winds