stillness
stil nuhs
- n (poetic) tranquil silence
- n calmness without winds
- n a state of no motion or movement
- It was the stillness that worried firefighters most.
- As a single shot shattered the stillness of Bangkok's Borompimarn Palace on a steamy June morning in 1946, the land some still called Siam changed forever.
- INDOCHINA A deep stillness lay across the wasteland of Dienbienphu.