Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Stillness \Still"ness\, 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.
Source : WordNet®
stillness
n 1: (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night" [syn: {hush},
{still}]
2: calmness without winds [syn: {windlessness}]
3: a state of no motion or movement [syn: {motionlessness}]
[ant: {motion}]