| Pronunciation: | | st'ilnus
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"
- [n] a state of no motion or movement
- [n] calmness without winds
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| | Synonyms: | | hush, motionlessness, still, windlessness |
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| | Antonyms: | | motion |
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| | See Also: | | calmness, fixedness, immobility, inaction, inactiveness, quiet, silence, state, stationariness |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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.
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