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stillness |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stillness n 1: (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night" [syn: {hush}, {still}] 2: calmness without winds [syn: {windlessness}] 3: a state of no motion or movement [syn: {motionlessness}] [ant: {motion}]
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