Category: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.