EQUANIMITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equanimity mean? 

• EQUANIMITY (noun)
  The noun EQUANIMITY has 1 sense:

1. steadiness of mind under stress

  Familiarity information: EQUANIMITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUANIMITY (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 ("equanimity" is a kind of...):

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

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

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:

equanimous (in full control of your faculties)

 Context examples 

It was evident that the squabble with the printer had not affected his equanimity.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If my record were closed to-night I could still survey it with equanimity.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes had recovered his equanimity, though I still seemed to detect gleams of amusement in his expression.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I paused and smiled reassuringly at Maud, for I had recovered my equanimity sooner than she.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She was too unused as yet to the whims of the man to accept them with equanimity.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)