What's the difference between placid and placidness?

Placid


Definition:

  • (a.) Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Ss became extremely placid and tame or were profoundly depressed in their overall behavior most of the time.
  • (2) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
  • (3) I vote for who I want.” embed The Guardian asked Placide, who was naturalized as an American citizen in 1990 and who works an evening shift for a nursing agency to put her two children through college, whether she thought Trump had made America great again.
  • (4) There are vast areas in which my peaceful indifference to what Amazon is and does can only be surpassed by Amazon’s presumably equally placid indifference to what I say and do.
  • (5) "A lot of teens in the early noughties were taking ketamine, which was a very placid, down drug that kept you in your own zone.
  • (6) As our car crawls through central London, from WPP's Mayfair head office to Millbank, where Sorrell is to sit on a panel, the dog sits placidly in the back, lolling its head in the sun.
  • (7) One personality was irritable and hostile, the other placid; in each case, a major seizure preceded the shift from the former to the latter.
  • (8) Even Angela Merkel of Germany, that placid sheet anchor of European stability, faces grassroots challenges from left and right.
  • (9) Read today's Rumour Mill here 9.23am BST Germany's Per Mertesacker is a pretty placid guy off the pitch, so when he gets shirty with a journalist you know he's had a long day.
  • (10) Do we just placidly accept their ideologically driven desire to drive back the frontiers of the state, to cut and privatise?
  • (11) And I don’t think I have ever achieved that almost pastoral Christmas nirvana, always promoted in tinselly TV ads, of just sitting placidly around after Christmas lunch and then smilingly responding as one’s child shows you a present without complaining or demanding anything.
  • (12) Were this just the froth of diehard Brexiteers at an otherwise placid time, we’d move on faster than you could say “ Bill Cash” .
  • (13) They need to get it done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marie Claire Placide, a dress shop owner and fashion designer, in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
  • (14) Aisikaier's life at the park is placid, if not slightly purgatorial.
  • (15) He wanted so much to convince his mates that he really had spied a miracle and to make sure that his normally placid mind had not fallen victim of some strange figment of the imagination, a confidence trick, a sudden mirage brought on by the unrelenting rays of the sun.'
  • (16) Danny Rynne, a scaffolder from Enfield, described Mahmoud as “lovely” and “placid”.
  • (17) After suffering a carbon monoxide intoxication, a thirty-nine-year-old patient presented a marked behavioral change, with a severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia, extreme placidity, bulimia, and hypersexuality.
  • (18) They noticed that 19 of the 20 patients were mentally slower; 11 were markedly aggressive and 8 had become placid and uncaring about family problems.
  • (19) By way of contrast to events earlier in the tour, where large crowds have turned out, the duke and duchess were greeted sedately by the islanders who brought out picnic chairs and sat placidly waiting on the grass verges at the side of the road leading from the airport to the tiny capital, Charlottetown.
  • (20) The great majority of the infants were very placid.

Placidness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being placid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Ss became extremely placid and tame or were profoundly depressed in their overall behavior most of the time.
  • (2) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
  • (3) I vote for who I want.” embed The Guardian asked Placide, who was naturalized as an American citizen in 1990 and who works an evening shift for a nursing agency to put her two children through college, whether she thought Trump had made America great again.
  • (4) There are vast areas in which my peaceful indifference to what Amazon is and does can only be surpassed by Amazon’s presumably equally placid indifference to what I say and do.
  • (5) "A lot of teens in the early noughties were taking ketamine, which was a very placid, down drug that kept you in your own zone.
  • (6) As our car crawls through central London, from WPP's Mayfair head office to Millbank, where Sorrell is to sit on a panel, the dog sits placidly in the back, lolling its head in the sun.
  • (7) One personality was irritable and hostile, the other placid; in each case, a major seizure preceded the shift from the former to the latter.
  • (8) Even Angela Merkel of Germany, that placid sheet anchor of European stability, faces grassroots challenges from left and right.
  • (9) Read today's Rumour Mill here 9.23am BST Germany's Per Mertesacker is a pretty placid guy off the pitch, so when he gets shirty with a journalist you know he's had a long day.
  • (10) Do we just placidly accept their ideologically driven desire to drive back the frontiers of the state, to cut and privatise?
  • (11) And I don’t think I have ever achieved that almost pastoral Christmas nirvana, always promoted in tinselly TV ads, of just sitting placidly around after Christmas lunch and then smilingly responding as one’s child shows you a present without complaining or demanding anything.
  • (12) Were this just the froth of diehard Brexiteers at an otherwise placid time, we’d move on faster than you could say “ Bill Cash” .
  • (13) They need to get it done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marie Claire Placide, a dress shop owner and fashion designer, in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
  • (14) Aisikaier's life at the park is placid, if not slightly purgatorial.
  • (15) He wanted so much to convince his mates that he really had spied a miracle and to make sure that his normally placid mind had not fallen victim of some strange figment of the imagination, a confidence trick, a sudden mirage brought on by the unrelenting rays of the sun.'
  • (16) Danny Rynne, a scaffolder from Enfield, described Mahmoud as “lovely” and “placid”.
  • (17) After suffering a carbon monoxide intoxication, a thirty-nine-year-old patient presented a marked behavioral change, with a severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia, extreme placidity, bulimia, and hypersexuality.
  • (18) They noticed that 19 of the 20 patients were mentally slower; 11 were markedly aggressive and 8 had become placid and uncaring about family problems.
  • (19) By way of contrast to events earlier in the tour, where large crowds have turned out, the duke and duchess were greeted sedately by the islanders who brought out picnic chairs and sat placidly waiting on the grass verges at the side of the road leading from the airport to the tiny capital, Charlottetown.
  • (20) The great majority of the infants were very placid.

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