Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being peaceful; freedom from war, tumult, disturbance, or discord; peaceableness.

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  • noun The state of being peaceful.

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  • noun a state that is calm and tranquil
  • noun the absence of mental stress or anxiety

Etymologies

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peaceful +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The rankings show that even among the G8 countries there are significant differences in peacefulness: While Japan was the most peaceful of the G8 countries, at a rank of five in the Index, Russia neared the bottom at number 118.

    "All we are saying..." JDsg 2007

  • America's peacefulness is merely a self-serving national myth.

    Sound Politics: Airbrushing The News, Vol. 1 2007

  • Ironically enough its peacefulness is due to war: for if it were not for the artillery practice-ranges which lie behind it, it would long ago have been exploited.

    Try Anything Twice 1938

  • Would you give me a definition of peacefulness then since it seems like I’m looking at peacefulness in one aspect and you’re saying it’s different?

    Long Way Home Laura Caldwell 2010

  • I was gasping for the kind of oxygen that can only be found in peacefulness.

    In The Run-Up « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

  • This business of love for love's sake, mocking at law and morality, scorning life and peacefulness, that is our privilege, the privilege of us bohemians -- the sole blessing left to us mad creatures whom society looks upon -- quite properly, I suppose -- with disdainful mistrust.

    The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • Peckman put another measure on the ballot seven years ago that would have required the city to increase "peacefulness" through mass stress-reduction techniques like meditation and piping smooth sounds into public buildings.

    Denver initiative calls for Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission Lisa Rein 2010

  • East muslims apparently can't see the "peacefulness" of the Quran.

    TEXAS FAITH: Should the Pentagon have "disinvited" Franklin Graham? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • • The denier will feel justified in acting out against those who threaten the peacefulness of their fantasy check out the "peacefulness" and "reasonable" slogans chanted at most antiwar rallies these days.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

  • There was almost total "peacefulness" and you could walk almost anywhere without a weapon and even the thought of any danger.

    Robert Eisenman: Fisk Is Wrong on West Bank 2008

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  • I am forced, against all my hopes and inclinations, to regard the history of my people here as the progress of the doom of what I value most in the world: the life and health of the earth, the peacefulness of human communities and households. Wendell Berry "A Native Hill"

    July 19, 2008