Stillness

Definitions

1. The quality or state of being still.
   countable, uncountable
2. Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The teru-tero (Vanellus cayanensis), is another bird, which often disturbs the stillness of the night.”

“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⟳.”

“The grauitie, and ſtillneſſe of your youth / The world hath noted.”

“Like⟳ a heartbeat drives you mad / In the stillness of remembering what you had / And what you lost”

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