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UK
/pˈiːsfəlnəs/
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[ US /ˈpisfəɫnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈpisfəɫnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the absence of mental stress or anxiety
- a state that is calm and tranquil
How To Use peacefulness In A Sentence
- After that you might as well drink to the peacefulness too, uninterrupted but for the clack of a distant tractor.
- Leaving the cosmopolitan town of modern Cairo, the iron bridges, and the pretentious hotels, with their flaunting inscriptions, it imparts a sense of sudden peacefulness to pass along the large and rapid waters of this river, between the curtains of palm-trees on the banks, borne by a dahabiya where one is master and, if one likes, may be alone. Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
- It might be associations, such as memories of holidays, pastoral idylls, the peacefulness, the slower pace, or a whole imagined way of life.
- Three others like to see some natural attractions of beauty and peacefulness.
- A feeling of peacefulness overtook her and, for once, she forgot the recent tragedies.
- Their peacefulness is tempered with readiness and realism.
- I think the peacefulness of the handwork is just what I need right now ... Preparing for the Baby...
- With this peacefulness also comes a happy and joyful frame of mind.
- She got up slowly and walked along the hallway, and for some reason she was glad of the eerie silence and peacefulness.
- And yet beneath the peacefulness on the face of those who sleep—a state that elicits a forgiving calm of your own—are fireworks to outglow most things in waking life. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES