equanimity
Origin of equanimity
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composure, coolness, aplomb, calmness, serenity, tranquillity, confidence, self-possession, peace, poise, steadiness, patience, detachment, calm, imperturbability, phlegm, placidity, assurance, cool, ataraxiaExamples from the Web for equanimity
Contemporary Examples of equanimity
The war has seen 100,000 deaths; it is not to the credit of journalists that we can write such words and keep our equanimity.
They accept with equanimity the true horror of aging alone, sundered from family and community.
No Country for Old People: ‘Kings Point’ Exposes the Hidden Elder CrisisDonald A. Davidoff
February 16, 2013
Garland added with an equanimity that comes with age that there are good and bad in every profession.
When his mistress read of the impending marriage in a newspaper, she accepted her fate with equanimity.
He parried every question and implication that Wallace threw at him with equanimity, humility, politeness, and even humor.
Historical Examples of equanimity
His equanimity was almost winsome, and I saw that friendliness was going to be his tactics.
The CavalierGeorge Washington Cable
I tried to contemplate the death-struggle with equanimity, but could not.
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
And many who have lived thus have attained to a lower kind of happiness or equanimity.
TheaetetusPlato
But by evening the Admiral's equanimity was not quite so perfect.
Captain BloodRafael Sabatini
He was in spirits indeed, for he had borne even this encounter with equanimity.
A Son of HagarSir Hall Caine