stillness
/ˈstɪlnəs/ noun C2- The quality or state of being still.
- Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
Plural stillnesses
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“The stillness of the mountain stream!
The monkeys on the walls and the empty houses stopped their cries, and in the stillness that fell upon the city Mowgli heard Bagheera shaking his wet sides as he came up from the tank.
In the night she awakened, with the stillness and the darkness about her, and the recollection of the day came over her like a wave of sorrow.
They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.
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