Stillness vs Solitude - What's the difference?
stillness | solitude |
The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.
Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
* 1603 , , II. iii. 186:
Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
A lonely or deserted place.
* 1813 , , Canto 2, stanza 20:
As nouns the difference between stillness and solitude
is that stillness is the quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity while solitude is aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.stillness
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Noun
- The gravity and stillness of your youth / The world hath noted;
solitude
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Noun
(wikipedia solitude)- Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude , and calls it — peace.
