Stillness

n.	1.	The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity. Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages. - J. A. Symonds.
	2.	Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity. The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted. - Shak.

Noun	1.	stillness - (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night" Synonyms: hush, still
	2.	stillness - calmness without winds Synonyms: windlessness
	3.	stillness - a state of no motion or movement Synonyms: motionlessness

ataraxia, ataraxy, awful silence, calmness, composure, contemplation, dead, dead of night, deathlike silence, golden silence, hush, hush of night, imperturbability, inaudibility, lucid stillness, lull, marmoreal repose, mum, nirvana, noiselessness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, restfulness, satori, serenity, silence, silentness, silken repose, sleep, slumber, solemn silence, soundlessness, still, tacitness, taciturnity, tomblike silence, tranquillity, whisht, wise passiveness

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