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单词 stillness
释义 still·ness
noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English stilnesse, from Old English stilnes, from stille, adjective, still + -nes -ness
1.
 a. : freedom from agitation : calmness, serenity
  < brings with her beauty … a capacity for stillness and repose — E.R.Bentley >
 b. : absence of movement : immobility, lifelessness
  < the stillness is so absolute that it seems as if all the winds of the world had … dropped out of the air — J.C.Powys >
2.
 a. : the quality or state of being soundless : quiet, silence
  < knew by the stillness and the tenseness that we had reached the outer fringe of the front — Burgess Scott >
 b. : a soundless place or environment
  < polar bears roam the great white stillnesses >
3. obsolete : patience, fortitude
 < in peace … nothing so becomes a man, as modest stillness — Shakespeare >
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