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TRANQUILLITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disposition free from stress or emotion
Synonyms:
placidity; quiet; repose; serenity; tranquility; tranquillity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("tranquillity" is a kind of...):
calm; calmness; composure; equanimity (steadiness of mind under stress)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tranquillity"):
ataraxia (peace of mind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A state of peace and quiet
Synonyms:
quietness; quietude; tranquility; tranquillity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("tranquillity" is a kind of...):
calmness (a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tranquillity"):
ataraxis; heartsease; peace; peace of mind; peacefulness; repose; serenity (the absence of mental stress or anxiety)
easiness; relaxation (a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry)
Derivation:
tranquil ((of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An untroubled state; free from disturbances
Synonyms:
quiet; tranquility; tranquillity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("tranquillity" is a kind of...):
order (established customary state (especially of society))
Derivation:
tranquil ((of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves)
Context examples:
The tranquillity which I now enjoyed did not endure.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It seemed I could hear all that was to come—whatever the disclosures might be—with comparative tranquillity.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The party being now all united, and the chief talkers attracting each other, she remained in tranquillity; and as a whist-table was formed after tea—formed really for the amusement of Dr.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The evening wore away with no abatement of this soothing politeness; and her spirits were gradually raised to a modest tranquillity.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It needed all Jane's steady mildness to bear these attacks with tolerable tranquillity.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The tranquillity and peace belonging, of old, to that quiet ground in my memory, pervaded it again.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But neither geography nor tranquillity could come all at once, and Emma was now in a humour to resolve that they should both come in time.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Her smile however changed to a sigh when she remembered that promise to Willoughby was yet unfulfilled, and feared she had that to communicate which might again unsettle the mind of Marianne, and ruin at least for a time this fair prospect of busy tranquillity.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Half an hour's solitude and reflection might have tranquillized her; but the ten minutes only which now passed before she was interrupted, with all the restraints of her situation, could do nothing towards tranquillity.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
