- a variation of tranquility.
tranquillity
Britishnoun
Explanation
Tranquillity is a sense of peace and quiet. It is the feeling you have while sitting under a starry sky, listening to the crickets. The aura of tranquility comes from the calm in the world, which makes you feel you are without a care in the world. Tranquillity is also sometimes spelled with one l as tranquility. Its roots are in the Latin trans meaning "exceedingly" and quies meaning "rest" or "quiet." Tranquil means calm, and something that is exceedingly quiet or restful — a sunset or a rocking chair in the shade — can give you a sense of tranquillity or peacefulness.
Example Sentences
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Tranquillity amid the chaos as a pair of footballing rivals paused to ponder a hazy wall of red smoke and simmering flares.
From BBC • May 9, 2023
Monkeys frontman Alex Turner confirmed their influence the opening lines of his band's most recent album, Tranquillity Base Hotel + Casino, crooning: "I just wanted to be one of The Strokes..."
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2021
The start of Not the Same Anymore shimmers like an echo of an echo that would have sat nicely on Tranquillity Base.
From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2020
Fifty years ago, three men journeyed from a small Florida peninsula to a dry crater some two hundred and forty thousand miles away called the Sea of Tranquillity.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019
The astronauts had landed on the shores of the Sea of Tranquillity, I had read, traveling farther than anyone in the history of civilization.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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