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Composure vs Equilibrium - What's the difference?

composure | equilibrium |

As nouns the difference between composure and equilibrium

is that composure is calmness of mind or matter, self-possession while equilibrium is the condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.

composure

English

Noun

  • Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.
  • * Milton
    • We seek peace and composure .
  • * I. Watts
    • When the passions are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure .
  • *
    • “Did you want anything, ma’am?” I enquired, still preserving my external composure , in spite of her ghastly countenance and strange exaggerated manner.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Montenegro's early composure was shaken by that set-back and a visibly buoyed Wales nearly added a second goal when Bale broke past two defenders and fired a long-range shot that Bozovic tipped over}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1798 , author=Giacomo Casanova , title=The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt , chapter=92 citation , passage=He began to lose his composure , and made mistakes, his cards got mixed up, and his scoring was wild.}}
  • (obsolete) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
  • * Evelyn
    • Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.
  • (obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.
  • * Woodward
    • Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
  • (obsolete) frame; make; temperament
  • * Shakespeare
    • His composure must be rare indeed / Whom these things can not blemish.
  • (obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * (calmness) equanimity * (calmness) See also

    equilibrium

    English

    Alternative forms

    * “ equilibrium]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed. (dated)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
  • * 1999 , , Agent smith speech
    • Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
  • (physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.
  • (chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
  • Mental balance.

    • Synonyms

    * (a condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced) balance, stability * (mental balance) sanity

    Antonyms

    * (a condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced) disequilibrium, imbalance, instability * (in physics) disequilibrium, non-equilibrium * (mental balance) insanity, instability, madness

    Hypernyms

    * (in physics) stasis

    Derived terms

    * disequilibrium * dynamic equilibrium * equilibrist * Nash equilibrium * neutral equilibrium * stable equilibrium * static equilibrium * unstable equilibrium

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    References

    English nouns with irregular plurals