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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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
His name was Neil Armstrong and his astonishing act of creativity is a photograph of his Apollo 11 crewmate Buzz Aldrin standing on the Sea of Tranquillity on the moon.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2019
Behind them, like an unblinking eye, the N.B.C. screen still showed a picture of the LM sitting at Tranquillity Base.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
Thirty years after planting the Stars and Stripes on the Sea of Tranquillity, America not only dominated outer space but cyberspace too.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2017
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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