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stillness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of stillness

1 a state of freedom from storm or disturbance

  • dozing in the warm stillness of a summer afternoon
Synonyms of stillness

calm, calmness, hush, peace, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, restfulness, sereneness, serenity, still, tranquillity (or tranquility)
Words Related to stillness

lull, pause, respite

silence

mildness, soothingness

comity, concord, harmony

casualness, easygoingness, informality, laid-backness, relaxedness
Near Antonyms of stillness

clamor, din, noise, racket
Antonyms of stillness

bustle, commotion, hubbub, hurly-burly, pandemonium, tumult, turmoil, unquietness, unrest, uproar

2 incapacity for or restraint from speaking

  • from the coupleʼs tense stillness I sensed that they had been quarreling just before I arrived
Synonyms of stillness

dumbness, muteness, silence, speechlessness
Words Related to stillness

inarticulacy, inarticulateness, voicelessness

reserve, reticence, reticency, taciturnity
Near Antonyms of stillness

communication, speaking, talking

eloquence, fluency, volubility

chattiness, garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness, talkiness

verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordiness

3 the near or complete absence of sound

  • the only thing that broke the stillness of the garden was the droning of a bee
Synonyms of stillness

hush, quiet, quietness, quietude, silence, still
Words Related to stillness

calm, lull, peace, peacefulness, tranquillity (or tranquility)
Near Antonyms of stillness

babel, blare, bluster, cacophony, chatter, clamor, clangor, din, hubbub, racket, rattle, roar, tumult, uproar
Antonyms of stillness

noise, sound, unquietness

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