Synonyms for stillness
still·ness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 7 votes

1. stillness

   Apathy, according to its Greek derivation, is a simple absence of feeling or emotion. There are persons to whom a certain degree of apathy is natural, an innate sluggishness of the emotional nature. In the apathy of despair, a person gives up, without resistance or sensibility, to what he has fiercely struggled to avoid. While apathy is want of feeling, calmness is feeling without agitation. Calmness is the result of strength, courage, or trust; apathy is the result of dulness or weakness. Composure is freedom from agitation or disturbance, resulting ordinarily from force of will, or from perfect confidence in one's own resources. Impassibility is a philosophical term applied to the Deity, as infinitely exalted above all stir of passion or emotion. Unfeelingness, the Saxon word that should be the exact equivalent of apathy, really means more, a lack of the feeling one ought to have, a censurable hardness of heart. Indifference and insensibility designate the absence of feeling toward certain persons or things; apathy, entire absence of feeling. Indifference is a want of interest; insensibility is a want of feeling; unconcern has reference to consequences. We speak of insensibility of heart, immobility of countenance. Stoicism is an intentional suppression of feeling and deadening of sensibilities, while apathy is involuntary. Compare CALM; REST; STUPOR.

   Synonyms:
   apathy, calmness, composure, immobility, impassibility, indifference, insensibility, lethargy, phlegm, quietness, quietude, sluggishness, stoicism, tranquillity, unconcern, unfeelingness

   Antonyms:
   agitation, alarm, anxiety, care, distress, disturbance, eagerness, emotion, excitement, feeling, frenzy, fury, passion, sensibility, sensitiveness, storm, susceptibility, sympathy, turbulence, vehemence, violence

   Preposition:
   The apathy of monastic life; apathy toward good.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. hush, stillness, stillnoun

   (poetic) tranquil silence

   "the still of the night"

   Synonyms:
   motionlessness, hush, windlessness, lifelessness, distillery, still

2. stillness, windlessnessnoun

   calmness without winds

   Synonyms:
   motionlessness, hush, windlessness, lifelessness, still

3. motionlessness, stillness, lifelessnessnoun

   a state of no motion or movement

   "the utter motionlessness of a marble statue"

   Synonyms:
   motionlessness, hush, windlessness, lifelessness, inanimateness, still

Matched Categories

1. • Calmness
   • Poetry
   • Silence
   • State

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "stillness":

   deadlock, stalemate

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1. William Shakespeare:

   Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

2. Rabindranath Tagore:

   In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

3. Longfellow:

   How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of the night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible. From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half sound, a half whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of the earth and all created things in the great miracle of nature?decay and reproduction?ever beginning, never ending?the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

4. Morgan Freeman:

   Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. ...

5. Brandon Garic Notch:

   The solution typically lies in the stillness at the base of mind within that shadowy place most refuse to look.