Composure vs Stability - What's the difference?
composure | stability |
Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.
* Milton
* I. Watts
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(obsolete) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
* Evelyn
(obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.
* Woodward
(obsolete) frame; make; temperament
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.
The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change
The tendency to recover from perturbations
As nouns the difference between composure and stability
is that composure is calmness of mind or matter, self-possession while stability is the condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.composure
English
Noun
- We seek peace and composure .
- 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.
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- Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.
- Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
- His composure must be rare indeed / Whom these things can not blemish.
- (Shakespeare)
