quietude
/ˈkwʌɪɪtjuːd
/noun [mass noun]
A state of stillness, calmness, and quiet in a person or place: it highlights her quietude and wise passivity a moment of quietude...
- Mourners deserve to honour their loss in peace, quietude and with due respect,’ he went on.
- Council is a reflective activity with roots in Quaker and Native American traditions, a time for all to come together for some common quietude, some seriousness, and for the sharing of deeper feelings.
- At least golf has its moments of quietude as well, so it wasn't that bad.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French quiétude or medieval Latin quietudo, from Latin quietus 'quiet'.
- notalgia paraesthetica
- notalgia paresthetica
- Notalian
- not a little
- not all that ——
- notam
- not a moment too soon
- NOT AND
- notandum
- not a patch on
- notaphilic
- notaphilist
- notaphily
- not a pretty sight
- not a proposition
- Notar
- notarial
- notarial act
- notarially
- notariate
- notaricon
- notarikon
- notariqon
- notarisation
- notarise