Synonyms for stillness

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. hush, stillness, still(noun)

   (poetic) tranquil silence

   "the still of the night"

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

2. stillness, windlessness(noun)

   calmness without winds

   Synonyms:
   motionlessness, hush, windlessness, lifelessness, still

3. motionlessness, stillness, lifelessness(noun)

   a state of no motion or movement

   "the utter motionlessness of a marble statue"

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

English Synonyms and Antonyms(2.67 / 6 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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.

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1. List of paraphrases for "stillness":

   deadlock, stalemate

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How to use stillness in a sentence?

1. Gordana Biernat:

   Thinking is a brain activity. Knowing is a gut feeling. Thinking is movement. Knowing is stillness. Thinking takes time. Knowing is now.

2. H.W. Mann:

   Many people, doctors, and scientists agree. We are our thoughts. Consciousness is a just a sophisticated function of the brain. Question? In meditation, who is the witness? Who is sitting there in the stillness? Who is aware of the mind-body? Who is quietly watching the thoughts? Who is the observer? How can we be both the observer and the observed?

3. Rabindranath Tagore:

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

4. Ashima:

   The smell, the nocturnal stillness, the dance of droplets and the moonlight on the road. The perfect sense.

5. Gordana Biernat:

   MEDITATE when you need stillness. Seek KNOWLEDGE when you need movement. LOVE when you want to know your true self.

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