2. the absence of motion.
Origin
before 1000; Middle English stilnesse, Old English stilnes. See
still1,
-ness Examples from the web for stillness
- At the same time the artists were evolving performances based on stillness, silence and endurance.
- Experience the night sky, the stillness of the desert and the overwhelming silence.
- Until it is measured, the virus should exist in a superposition of motion and stillness.
- Because there isn't film running through the camera, you get an even more pronounced stillness.
- But it reinvented itself by dismissing the order, formality and stillness of the old stores.
- Then the stillness, the absolute zero, of a creature that sensed it was being hunted.
- There are beautiful images to be made in heat and cold, stillness and storm.
- What appealed to me was the stillness of the water and its pristine untouched beauty.
- The heaviness of the atmosphere and an unwonted stillness benumbed my senses.
- One of them would scream, tearing through the stillness.
Word Origin and History for stillness