CALMNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calmness mean? 

• CALMNESS (noun)
  The noun CALMNESS has 3 senses:

1. steadiness of mind under stress

2. an absence of strong winds or rain

3. a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement

  Familiarity information: CALMNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALMNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Steadiness of mind under stress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

calm; calmness; composure; equanimity

Context example:

he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity

Hypernyms ("calmness" is a kind of...):

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calmness"):

aplomb; assuredness; cool; poise; sang-froid (great coolness and composure under strain)

placidity; quiet; repose; serenity; tranquility; tranquillity (a disposition free from stress or emotion)

Derivation:

calm (not agitated; without losing self-possession)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An absence of strong winds or rain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("calmness" is a kind of...):

good weather (weather suitable for outdoor activities)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calmness"):

stillness; windlessness (calmness without winds)

lull; quiet (a period of calm weather)

Derivation:

calm ((of weather) free from storm or wind)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("calmness" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calmness"):

placidity; placidness (a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling)

coolness; imperturbability; imperturbableness (calm and unruffled self-assurance)

quietness; quietude; tranquility; tranquillity (a state of peace and quiet)

Antonym:

agitation (the feeling of being agitated; not calm)

Derivation:

calm (not agitated; without losing self-possession)

 Context examples 

With apprehensive caution therefore it was revealed, and he was listened to with unexpected calmness.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Her grateful and gratified heart could hardly restrain its expressions within the language of tolerable calmness.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"It's worse than boots, it's a silk dress," she said, with the calmness of desperation, for she wanted the worst over.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After a little reflection, he went on with a sort of desperate calmness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Not a detail that I can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then, addressing me, she said, with enforced calmness: My son is ill. Very ill.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Nothin'," he said slowly, with a careless calmness that was assumed, "only goin' to keep that promise I made. I reckon it's up to me to kill 'm as I said I'd do."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Tease calmness of manner and presence of mind!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Not quite, returned Emma, with forced calmness, for all that you then said, appeared to me to relate to a different person.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then he stopped, and with a violent effort he resumed a cold, rigid calmness, which was, perhaps, more suggestive of danger than his hot-headed outburst.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)