Overquietness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Overquietness is a noun meaning Excessive quietness.
Meaning
Excessive quietness.
Example Sentences
To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail […] were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include disquietude, disquietment, hushedness, unquietness, unquietude, disquietedness.
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