stillness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stillness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for stillness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stillness n (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night" [syn: hush, stillness, still] calmness without winds Synonym(s): stillness, windlessness a state of no motion or movement; "the utter motionlessness of a marble statue" Synonym(s): motionlessness, stillness, lifelessness Antonym(s): motion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.