stillness

CEFRB2

/ˈstɪlnəs/

noun

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noun
A state without movement or noise.
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noun
Extra detail
Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.

Examples

I find peace in the stillness of the morning light.
She sat in a room that was flooded with light, permeated with a deep stillness.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 3
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 4
Synonyms: 5

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noun

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The quality or state of being still.

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The stillness of the desert overwhelmed me.
The teru-tero (Vanellus cayanensis), is another bird, which often disturbs the stillness of the night.
The grauitie, and ſtillneſſe of your youth / The world hath noted.

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The blank of the desert night was broken by a distant howl.

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The teru-tero (Vanellus cayanensis), is another bird, which often disturbs the stillness of the night.
1839, Charles Darwin, Journal and remarks: 1832-1836, volume 3, page 133
It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings, the approaches and the separations, all the shifting detail of its march and ordinance, according to the irrevocable caprice of its taking place.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
The grauitie, and ſtillneſſe of your youth / The world hath noted.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 320
Like a heartbeat drives you mad / In the stillness of remembering what you had / And what you lost
1977, Stevie Nicks, “Dreams”, in Rumours, performed by Fleetwood Mac

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Origin

noun

From Middle English stilnesse, from Old English stilnes (“stillness, quiet; absence of noise or disturbance, release, relaxation; silence, abstention from speech; absence of disturbance or molestation, tranquility, peace, security; that which appeases”), equivalent to still + -ness.

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The blank— of the desert night was broken by a distant howl.

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The blank of the desert night was broken by a distant howl.