stillness

Other forms of stillness

plural

stillnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stillness

What does stillness mean?

stillness means "(poetic) tranquil silence". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stillness?

stillness has 2 syllables: still-ness. The stress falls on "still". In IPA it is /ˈstɪlnəs/.

What is another word for stillness?

Close synonyms include hush, still, windlessness, motionlessness, lifelessness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stillness a common word?

stillness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.