equanimous
/ɪˈkwanɪməs
/ /iːˈkwanɪməs/adjective
Calm and composed.The Cardinal is anything but equanimous when it comes to contraception....
- I'm not saying they were always equanimous but they had more equanimity than I had, less anxiety than I had.
- Experience tends to be more vivid at medium levels and more equanimous at deep levels, whether it is hypnosis or meditation.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin aequanimus, from aequus 'equal' + animus mind.
Rhymes
- White, E. B.
- White, Edward Douglass
- white egret
- white elephant
- white elephantine
- white elm
- white embroidery
- White English
- white ensign
- white-eye
- white-eyed
- white-eyed vireo
- white-eyelid mangabey
- whiteface
- white-faced
- White Father
- white feather
- white-feathered
- whitefella
- whitefellow
- White Ferns
- Whitefieldian
- Whitefieldism
- white finger
- white fir