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Meaning of Stillness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈstɪlnəs

Definitions

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

Equivalents

العربية السّكون سكون
Български тишина
Bosanski čalma тишина
Català calma
Čeština klid
Cymraeg llonyddwch
Deutsch Stille
Ελληνικά άπνοια νηνεμία
Esperanto senmoveco
Français calme immobilité
עברית דממה
Hrvatski čalma тишина
Italiano immobilità
日本語 寂静
Kurdî klîd
മലയാളം നിശ്ചലത
Српски čalma тишина
Svenska stillhet
Українська дрімота

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”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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