QUIETUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quietude mean? 

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

1. a state of peace and quiet

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUIETUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of peace and quiet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

quietness; quietude; tranquility; tranquillity

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

calmness (a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement)

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

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)

 Context examples 

He felt a vacancy in him, a need for the hush and quietude of the stream and the cave in the cliff.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Still, it was better than living alone in the rooms which I had come to hate from the presence of the Count, and after trying a little to school my nerves, I found a soft quietude come over me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was a groove that bridged the Atlantic with uneventfulness, so that the ship was not a ship in the midst of the sea, but a capacious, many-corridored hotel that moved swiftly and placidly, crushing the waves into submission with its colossal bulk until the sea was a mill-pond, monotonous with quietude.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Before him was smiling country, streaming with sunshine, lazy with quietude.

(White Fang, by Jack London)