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Reclination vs Quietness - What's the difference?

reclination | quietness | Related terms |

Reclination is a related term of quietness.


As nouns the difference between reclination and quietness

is that reclination is the act of leaning or reclining while quietness is absence of sound; silence or hush.

reclination

English

Noun

  • The act of leaning or reclining.
  • The angle made by the plane of a dial with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
  • (surgery) Removal of a cataract by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.
    • (Dunglison)
    (Webster 1913)

    quietness

    English

    Noun

    (quietnesses)
  • Absence of sound; silence or hush.
  • Absence of disturbance; calm, stillness or serenity.

    • Synonyms

    * (absence of sound) silence, roo