SERENITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does serenity mean? 

• SERENITY (noun)
  The noun SERENITY has 2 senses:

1. a disposition free from stress or emotion

2. the absence of mental stress or anxiety

  Familiarity information: SERENITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERENITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition free from stress or emotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

placidity; quiet; repose; serenity; tranquility; tranquillity

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

calm; calmness; composure; equanimity (steadiness of mind under stress)

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

ataraxia (peace of mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The absence of mental stress or anxiety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

ataraxis; heartsease; peace; peace of mind; peacefulness; repose; serenity

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

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

 Context examples 

“Yes, my dear,” replied Mrs. Allen, with perfect serenity, “it is very uncomfortable indeed.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There was a serenity, a tranquillity, a calm sunset air about him, which quite affected me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were grave, it is true, and thoughtful, but of an invincible serenity.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By and by Beth said, with recovered serenity, "You'll tell them this when we go home?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He does not care for that: when my time came to die, he would resign me, in all serenity and sanctity, to the God who gave me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She looked suspiciously at her sister; Maria's countenance was to decide it: if she were vexed and alarmed—but Maria looked all serenity and satisfaction, and Julia well knew that on this ground Maria could not be happy but at her expense.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

No serious quarrel had ever vexed the serenity of the party; and, now that each had sixteen hundred dollars to show for a short summer's work, there reigned the well-fed, contented spirit of prosperity.

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

But I shall not scruple to assert, that the serenity of your sister's countenance and air was such as might have given the most acute observer a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She longed for the serenity they might gradually introduce; and on Mr. Perry's coming in soon after dinner, with a disengaged hour to give her father, she lost no time in hurrying into the shrubbery.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Now all was blasted; instead of that serenity of conscience which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)