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# stillness

«stillness» in Mova's school dictionary: **being completely still, with no movement** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (stillness, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stillness is being completely still, with no movement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stillness/#m1)

2) Stillness is being quiet and calm, with no noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stillness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and poems, stillness describes a calm night, a frozen lake or the silence before something happens. In everyday life and mindfulness lessons, children practise moments of stillness to feel calm. Phrases: «the stillness of the night», «in the stillness».

### examples

- The stillness of the forest was broken by a bird call. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stillness/#x1)
- In the stillness of the night, we heard an owl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stillness/#x2)
- The lake lay in perfect stillness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stillness/#x3)
- Let's sit in stillness for one minute and breathe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stillness/#x4)
- The hunter waited in total stillness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stillness/#x5)
- A shout broke the stillness of the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stillness/#x6)
- A sudden clamor of high-pitched voices broke the deadly stillness of the dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stillness/#x7)

### note

Uncountable noun: still + -ness. Keep both l's and the double s: «stillness». Stillness means both no movement and quiet. Do not confuse with «still» meaning «even now» («I am still hungry»).

### In the corpora

- [Only for God doth my soul wait in stillness; from Him cometh my salvation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1006/)
- [Only for God wait thou in stillness, my soul; for from Him cometh my hope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1010/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stillness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stillness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.