stillness
Absence of movement
Stillness is the absence of movement or sound.
A pond has stillness when its surface lies undisturbed.
A room has stillness when no one stirs and nothing makes noise.
The word often carries a quality of peace or contemplation: In the stillness of the morning, she could finally think.
Stillness can also feel ominous—the unnatural quiet before a storm or catastrophe.
Undisturbed mental quietude
- peaceFreedom from disturbance
- reposePeaceful stillness or calm
- composureEmotional self-control
- equanimityUnshakable mental steadiness
placidity · ease · contentment · relaxation · quietude · soothing · gentleness · lull
Lack of motion
- statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- stationaryNot in motion
- inertiaResistance to altered motion
standstill · halt · pause · fixed · anchored · rooted · rigid · static
Day's first glow
- twilightLight after sunset
- pondSmall still body
- lakeEnclosed body of freshwater
- clearingTreeless space in forest
glade · forest · snowfall · fog · mist · morning · dusk · moonlight
Awareness of the present
- zenMeditative calm
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- vipassanaClear-seeing contemplative practice
- zazenZen seated meditation
samadhi · centering · presence · awareness · breathwork · pranayama · sitting · inner peace
Absence of sound
- quietLacking in sound
- soundlessnessTotal absence of noise
- noiselessnessQuality of being soundless
- mutenessInability to speak
hushed · muted · voicelessness · speechlessness · taciturnity · inaudibility · whisper · breathlessness
serenity
Undisturbed mental quietude
equanimity · placidity · ease · contentment · relaxation · quietude · soothing · gentleness · lull · quiescence
immobility
Lack of motion
- statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- stationaryNot in motion
inertia · standstill · halt · pause · fixed · anchored · rooted · rigid · static · suspended
dawn
Day's first glow
clearing · glade · forest · snowfall · fog · mist · morning · dusk · moonlight · meadow
mindfulness
Awareness of the present
- zenMeditative calm
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- vipassanaClear-seeing contemplative practice
zazen · samadhi · centering · presence · awareness · breathwork · pranayama · sitting · inner peace · concentration
hush
Absence of sound
- quietLacking in sound
- soundlessnessTotal absence of noise
- noiselessnessQuality of being soundless
muteness · hushed · muted · voicelessness · speechlessness · taciturnity · inaudibility · whisper · breathlessness · deadness
- peacepeace, peaceful, peacefully, peace sign, peace symbol
- calmnesscalmness, calm, serenity, composure, equanimity
- composurecalm, calmness, composure, composed, poise
- contemplationcontemplation, meditation, reflection, pondering, musing
- inactioninaction, passivity, doing nothing, immobility, stasis
- meditationbreathing meditation, breath, breath meditation, mantra, breathing
stillnessmotion
Change in position
movement · activity · action · turbulence · agitation
stillnessnoise
Unwanted auditory disturbance
din · clamor · racket · uproar · pandemonium
stillnessbustle
Energetic noisy activity
commotion · hurly-burly · turmoil · hustle and bustle · hustle
- mental stillnessAbsence of mental noise