PEACEFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peacefulness mean? 

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

1. a state that is calm and tranquil

2. the absence of mental stress or anxiety

  Familiarity information: PEACEFULNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEACEFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state that is calm and tranquil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

peaceableness; peacefulness

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

amity (a state of friendship and cordiality)

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

mollification (a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered)

Derivation:

peaceful (peacefully resistant in response to injustice)

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 ("peacefulness" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

The idea of being again surrounded by those honest faces, shining welcome on me; of renewing the peacefulness of the sweet Sunday morning, when the bells were ringing, the stones dropping in the water, and the shadowy ships breaking through the mist; of roaming up and down with little Em'ly, telling her my troubles, and finding charms against them in the shells and pebbles on the beach; made a calm in my heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)