- a variation of placidity.
placidness
Example Sentences
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At 16, Hamer left home, and over the course of the next 18 months, walked across Britain, honing the skills that make him a superlative mole catcher — invisibility and placidness.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019
The relative placidness of inbounds skiing is no match for the greater adventure of untamed terrain.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2012
Would you expect to enjoy yourself with your usual placidness, and not to be ruffled, in an hurricane which every moment threatens to blow your house down?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
Now anger is by nature at the farthest distance imaginable from complacency, and spleenishness from placidness, and animosity and turbulence from humanity and kindness.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
"Oh, no," said Mrs. Fisher—with an odd placidness, Scrap thought.
From The Enchanted April by Elizabeth
