stillness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (poetic) tranquil silence
    hush; still.
    • the still of the night
  2. noun calmness without winds
    windlessness.
  3. noun a state of no motion or movement
    lifelessness; motionlessness.
    • the utter motionlessness of a marble statue

WordNet

Still"ness noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.
    Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages. J. A. Symonds.
  2. Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
    The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted. Shak.

Webster 1913