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stillness
(encz) | stillness,ticho n: Zdeněk Brož |
Stillness
(gcide) | Stillness \Still"ness\, n.
1. The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence;
calmness; inactivity.
[1913 Webster]
Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern
intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of
the Middle Ages. --J. A.
Symonds.
[1913 Webster]
2. Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
[1913 Webster]
The gravity and stillness of your youth
The world hath noted. --Shak.
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stillness
(wn) | stillness
n 1: (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night" [syn:
hush, stillness, still]
2: calmness without winds [syn: stillness, windlessness]
3: a state of no motion or movement; "the utter motionlessness
of a marble statue" [syn: motionlessness, stillness,
lifelessness] [ant: motion] |
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Stillness
(gcide) | Stillness \Still"ness\, n.
1. The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence;
calmness; inactivity.
[1913 Webster]
Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern
intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of
the Middle Ages. --J. A.
Symonds.
[1913 Webster]
2. Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
[1913 Webster]
The gravity and stillness of your youth
The world hath noted. --Shak.
[1913 Webster] |
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