Placidity
[plə'sidəti]
Definition
(noun.) a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling.
Editor: Mamie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity.
Typist: Susan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Calmness, quietness, serenity, composure, coolness, tranquillity, imperturbability.
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Examples
- Miss Pross inquired, with placidity. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- An exhausted composure, a worn-out placidity, an equanimity of fatigue not to be ruffled by interest or satisfaction, are the trophies of her victory. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He had a great red pipe in his mouth, and was smoking, and staring at the rush-light, in a state of enviable placidity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- That is a degree of placidity, which I can neither comprehend nor respect. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Her nature, in spite of her apparent placidity and calm, was profoundly restless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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