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quietness

quietness noun: absence of sound; silence or hush.

Noun

quietness (countable and uncountable, plural quietnesses)

  1. Absence of sound; silence or hush.
    Synonyms:
    silence, roo
  2. Absence of disturbance; calm, stillness or serenity.
    • He put his thumbs in his galluses and looked out the window, taking credit for the quietness.1949, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 94

quietness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Assamese

quietness in Tamil

அமசடக்கம், அலம், சில்லெனல், கோப்பியம், பேச்சுமூச்சில்லாமை, வாளாமை

quietness in Urdu

چپ, خاموشی, سناٹا, سکون, سکوت

quietness in Malayalam

quietness
സ്വസ്ഥത svasthata

quietness in Assamese

quietness, calmness
শাঁতি xãti

Synonyms of quietness

Forms of quietness

pluralquietnesses

Origin of quietness

From Middle English quietnes, quietnesse, quietenesse, qwietnesse, qwietenesse, equivalent to quiet + -ness.

Questions about quietness

What does quietness mean?
Quietness means absence of sound; silence or hush.
What is quietness in Tamil?
Quietness in Tamil is அமசடக்கம், அலம், சில்லெனல். See Quietness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quietness?
Quietness is a noun.
What is the plural of quietness?
The plural of quietness is quietnesses.

Words near quietness in the dictionary

  1. quietives
  2. quietless
  3. quietlier
  4. quietlike
  5. quietly
  6. quietness
  7. quietnesses
  8. quiets
  9. quiets down
  10. quietsome
  11. quietude

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quietness (page history and authors); quietness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quietness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); സ്വസ്ഥത (Malayalam) (page history and authors); শাঁতি (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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