placidity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
placid + -ity, from Latin placiditās (“mildness, placidity”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
placidity (usually uncountable, plural placidities)
- The state of being placid; peacefulness.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 10:
- And how could she bear such behaviour! Composure with a witness! to look on, while repeated attentions were offering to another woman, before her face, and not resent it.—That is a degree of placidity, which I can neither comprehend nor respect.
- 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 207:
- Thus, in rapid succession, passed the thoughts of Rosilia, who, endeavouring to assume placidity, once more essayed to express her thanks to Mrs. Melbourne for her kind attentions, […]
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
- The swift and indifferent placidity of that look troubled me.
Synonyms[edit]
- (state of being placid): composure, peacefulness, serenity
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Translations[edit]
state of being placid
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