quietude
/ˈkwʌɪɪtjuːd
/noun [mass noun]
A state of stillness, calmness, and quiet in a person or place: it highlights her quietude and wise passivity a moment of quietude...
- Mourners deserve to honour their loss in peace, quietude and with due respect,’ he went on.
- Council is a reflective activity with roots in Quaker and Native American traditions, a time for all to come together for some common quietude, some seriousness, and for the sharing of deeper feelings.
- At least golf has its moments of quietude as well, so it wasn't that bad.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French quiétude or medieval Latin quietudo, from Latin quietus 'quiet'.
- non-hearer
- non-hearing
- non-heme
- nonhereditary
- non-Hermitian
- non-hero
- non-hierarchic
- non-hierarchical
- nonhistorical
- non-Hodgkin
- non-Hodgkins
- non-Hodgkin's
- non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- non-homogeneous
- non-homologous
- non-homosexual
- non-hostile
- non-human
- noni
- nonic
- nonideal
- nonideality
- non-identical
- nonidentity
- noni juice