quietude
/ˈkwaɪ.ɪ.t(j)uːd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "You enter what they call the world’s quietest room, and it greets you, not with pleasantries but with the full force of silence, where silence itself becomes a palpable presence. There, in this engineered quietude, the dearth of sound grows profound, rendering the space uncannily alien."
- "But the castle was not destined to remain long in its present quietude. One morning Lord Avonleigh received a packet from London, whose contents filled him with joy..."
- "Stopping steam services on the West Coast line from Brighton are confined to the Horsham push-pull trains, which diverge at Shoreham to seek the rural quietude of Bramber, Steyning, Henfield, and Partridge Green, with a run by the banks of the Adur as a pleasant prelude."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French quiétude, from Late Latin quiētūdō, from Latin quiētus, perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“rest”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *kʷyeh₁-, quiétude, quiētūdō, quiētus