(n.) Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
(n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Installed 21 years ago today, in the midst of the cold war and on the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing, the shark apparently depicted how even suburban quietism was at threat from atomic holocaust.
(2) Debt-laden graduates who submit to the vocational logic of contemporary higher education, and then enter a ruthless job market, are castigated for their self-obsession and political quietism.
(3) It is not only 18- to 30-year-olds who vote for ideals; there is among others a substantial Christian constituency that, given the choice, would put social justice before quietism as it did in 1945.
(4) There had actually been a time when, on account of his quietism, the ideological challenge he posed to militant secular nationalism, and his opposition to the armed struggle espoused by the Palestine Liberation Organisation, the Israelis looked benevolently on Yassin and his works.
Quietude
Definition:
(n.) Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think people are where I am, which is, yeah, a Eurosceptic position – but not a Euro exit position.” McDonnell added: “I think a period of quietude from the likes of Cameron and Osborne and others would be helpful.
(2) In other instances, intracranial microinjections of angiotensin II were followed by quietude or e.e.g.
(3) Of course, you will depend on the Cipfa council's appetite for risk, and sometimes in the past their instinct for municipal quietude has been strong.
(4) I know some people look down on my quietude, but I feel it would impact my ability to be an artist.
(5) Douce Quietude is one of the better sites in Provence, lively but not too raucous and with a great location in the hills above the seaside town of Saint-Raphaël, and a 10 minute-drive from the lovely beach at Agay.
(6) There is a lovely quietude to it all making for a brilliant acoustic tribute to a piece of history."
(7) Starting with the ousting of Mubarak, they have sacrificed successive prime ministers and presidents, invited conservative rivals to enter the establishment and help reseal its walls, disingenuously adopted the language of revolution in an effort to sap the strength of protesters, and unleashed waves of terror to subdue Egypt’s population back into quietude.
(8) Holliday also dismissed fears that the UK's electricity grid could be vulnerable to solar storms , as the Sun's activity reaches a new maximum after years of quietude.