Synonyms for stillness
still·ness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 6 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. Ellen Ripley:

   I grew up watching that movie, and she's so brilliant in it... I remember being very impressed with her reactions, her stillness, her stillness in that film, I think really helped sell a lot of the horror.

2. William Shakespeare:

   In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

3. Photographer Seamus Murphy:

   Often in the course of working I will shoot a detail and try to make it say something compelling with its stillness so it's not completely alien. the nose freaked me out more than the ear-- I think because of its dimensionality.

4. Fabio Bucciarelli:

   It represents one of the longest and most forgotten African wars, its apparent stillness leads to hear about it less and less. Given the tragic consequences and repercussions on the population, I find it essential to bring it to light.

5. Gordana Biernat:

   Stillness is the absence of motion. There's no space for time to fly and no time for space to be. In stillness space and time are point-less.