quietus
Permanent rest achieved
Quietus is a formal or literary word for death, or something that brings an end to activity or existence.
Shakespeare's "when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin" gave the word lasting literary currency.
More broadly, a quietus is anything that settles a matter conclusively: The court ruling put a quietus on further appeals.
The word retains a flavor of finality and formality.
State of eventual death
- funeralService honoring the dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- obituaryNotice of someone's passing
- graveSerious and worrying
cemetery · bereavement · coffin · urn · wake · epitaph · pallbearer · coroner
Act of ending something
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- cessationA full stopping
- culminationHighest or final point
- endpointFinal point reached
finale · completion · denouement · last act · swan song · curtain call · epilogue · farewell
Release from constraint
- deliveranceRescue from bondage
- absolutionFormal clearing of guilt
- reliefEasing of distress
- reprievePostponement of punishment
escape · freedom · salvation · extrication · unburdening · respite · surcease · mercy
mortality
State of eventual death
grave · cemetery · bereavement · coffin · urn · wake · epitaph · pallbearer · coroner · autopsy
termination
Act of ending something
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- cessationA full stopping
- culminationHighest or final point
endpoint · finale · completion · denouement · last act · swan song · curtain call · epilogue · farewell · wrap-up
liberation
Release from constraint
- deliveranceRescue from bondage
- absolutionFormal clearing of guilt
- reliefEasing of distress
reprieve · escape · freedom · salvation · extrication · unburdening · respite · surcease · mercy · acquittance
tranquility
Undisturbed peacefulness
quietude · restfulness · placidity · peace · hush · silence · ease · lull · stillness · contentment
- finishing blowsfinishing blow, final blow, deathblow, finisher, finishing move
- oblivionoblivion, nothingness, nonexistence, extinction, annihilation
quietuscontinuation
Act of proceeding further
renewal · revival · resumption · perpetuation · persistence
- be quietCease making noise
- peace and quietFreedom from disturbance
- keep quietRemain silent
- quiet downBecome less noisy
- quiet as a mouseExtremely silent
- keeping quietRemaining silent
quiet, quieted, quietness, disquiet, quieten, quieting, quieter, quiets, disquieting