Stillness

Definition of Stillness

Still´ness
n.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.

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ataraxia, ataraxy, awful silence, calmness, composure, contemplation, dead, dead of night, deathlike silence, golden silence, hush, hush of night, imperturbability, inaudibility, lucid stillness, lull, marmoreal repose, mum, nirvana, noiselessness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, restfulness, satori, serenity, silence, silentness, silken repose, sleep, slumber, solemn silence, soundlessness, still, tacitness, taciturnity, tomblike silence, tranquillity, whisht, wise passiveness
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