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equanimities

equanimities is the plural of equanimity.

Meaning of equanimity

Noun

equanimity (countable and uncountable, plural equanimities)

  1. The state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress.
    • No doubt you are right, my best of friends, there would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men—and God knows why they are so fashioned—did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.1779, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

Questions about equanimities

What is equanimities the plural of?
Equanimities is the plural of equanimity.

Words near equanimities in the dictionary

  1. equals signs
  2. equangular
  3. Equanil
  4. equanimitable
  5. equanimitably
  6. equanimities
  7. equanimity
  8. equanimous
  9. equanimously
  10. equant
  11. equants

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