Definitions for: Stillness


[n] (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"
[n] a state of no motion or movement
[n] calmness without winds



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: hush, motionlessness, still, windlessness

Antonyms: motion

See Also: calmness, fixedness, immobility, inaction, inactiveness, quiet, silence, state, stationariness

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