stillness

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

stillness, n. 

•  The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.  [1913 Webster]

  "Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages."  [1913 Webster]
•  Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.  [1913 Webster]

  "The gravity and stillness of your youth
  The world hath noted."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

stillness

ataraxia, ataraxy, awful silence, calmness, composure, contemplation, dead, dead of night, deathlike silence, golden silence, hush, hush of night, imperturbability, inaudibility, lucid stillness, lull, marmoreal repose, mum, nirvana, noiselessness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, restfulness, satori, serenity, silence, silentness, silken repose, sleep, slumber, solemn silence, soundlessness, still, tacitness, taciturnity, tomblike silence, tranquillity, whisht, wise passiveness

ROGET THESAURUS

stillness

Quiescence

N quiescence, rest, stillness, quiescence, stagnation, stagnancy, fixity, immobility, catalepsy, indisturbance, quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm, repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep, pause, lull, stand still, standing still, lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix, embargo, resting place, gite, bivouac, home, pillow, haven, goal, quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed, stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still, sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home, becalmed, stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled, calm, restful, cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death, vegetative, vegetating, at a stand, tout court, at the halt, Int, stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!, requiescat in pace, Deus nobis haec otia fecit, the noonday quiet holds the hill.

Silence

N silence, stillness, peace, hush, lull, muteness, solemn silence, awful silence, dead silence, deathlike silence, silent, still, stilly, noiseless, soundless, hushed, mute, soft, solemn, awful, deathlike, silent as the grave, inaudible, silently, sub silentio, Int, hush!, silence!, soft!, whist!, tush!, chut!, tut!, pax!, be quiet!, be silent!, be still!, shut up!, chup!, chup rao!, tace!, one might hear a feather drop, one might hear a pin drop, so quiet you could hear a pin drop, grosse Seelen dulden still, le silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont pas sa, le silence est le parti le plus sar de celui se d_, silence more musical than any song, tacent satis laudant, better to be silent and thought a fool than to spe.