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noun

Stillness n.

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."

Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity. "The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted."

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Etymology of 'Stillness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stillness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Again the stillness was broken. This time it was by the harsh voice of a black carrion. This too was followed by movement, only the movement had no haste or suggestion of fear. It was simply the heavy flapping of slow-moving wings. Two enormous crows launched themselves upon the air ...

— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum

... The intense stillness within the house, instead of reassuring me, served as a threat. After my experience of the night, it spoke ...

— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott

... moment or two of breathless stillness, and then, with a sharp cry of fear, the sleeper ...

— The Good Time Coming • T. S. Arthur

... clearest, faintest azure bending overhead; in the centre of the aerial landscape the massive walls of the cloister of Pfalzel, gray to the east, purple to the west; silence over all,—a gentle, eager, conscious stillness, diffused through the air like perfume, as if earth and sky were hushing themselves to hear the voice of the river faintly murmuring down ...

— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)

... been twa o'clock in the mornin' or maybe a little mair, and I was just thinkin' that I wasna tae see onything after a'—and I wasna very sorry neither—when all o' a sudden a soond cam tae my ears clear and distinct through the stillness ...

— The Mystery of Cloomber • Arthur Conan Doyle

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