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A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Meaning of "placidity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLACIDITY

placidity  [pləˈsɪdɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLACIDITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Placidity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PLACIDITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of placidity in the English dictionary

The definition of placidity in the dictionary is the quality of having a calm appearance or nature.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLACIDITY


acidity
əˈsɪdɪtɪ
aridity
əˈrɪdɪtɪ
flaccidity
flæˈsɪdɪtɪ
fluidity
fluːˈɪdɪtɪ
humidity
hjuːˈmɪdɪtɪ
hyperacidity
ˌhaɪpərəˈsɪdɪtɪ
hypoacidity
ˌhaɪpəʊəˈsɪdɪtɪ
liquidity
lɪˈkwɪdɪtɪ
lucidity
luːˈsɪdɪtɪ
morbidity
mɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ
mucidity
ˌmjuːˈsɪdɪtɪ
pellucidity
ˌpɛluːˈsɪdɪtɪ
peracidity
ˌperəˈsɪdɪtɪ
rancidity
rænˈsɪdɪtɪ
rigidity
rɪˈdʒɪdɪtɪ
stupidity
stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ
subacidity
ˌsʌbəˈsɪdɪtɪ
translucidity
ˌtrænzluːˈsɪdɪtɪ
turbidity
tɜːˈbɪdɪtɪ
viscidity
vɪˈsɪdɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLACIDITY

placentae
placental
placentate
placentation
Placentia
placentiform
placentology
placer
placet
placid
placidly
placidness
placing
placings
placit
placita
placitory
placitum
plack
placket

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLACIDITY

absolute humidity
avidity
comorbidity
face validity
frigidity
gravidity
hybridity
insipidity
intrepidity
invalidity
lividity
modulus of rigidity
nudity
putridity
rapidity
relative humidity
solidity
superfluidity
timidity
torridity
validity

Synonyms and antonyms of placidity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «placidity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLACIDITY

Find out the translation of placidity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of placidity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «placidity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

平和
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

placidez
570 millions of speakers

English

placidity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

placidity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رباطة جأش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

спокойствие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

placidez
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শান্তভাব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

placidité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesesuaian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gelassenheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

平穏
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

placidity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Placidity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự nhẹ nhàng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

placidity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लवचिकपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sükunet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

placidità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

łagodność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спокій
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

placiditate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

placidity
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kalmte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

placidity
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

placidity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of placidity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLACIDITY»

The term «placidity» is regularly used and occupies the 84.973 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLACIDITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about placidity

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2 QUOTES WITH «PLACIDITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word placidity.
1
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.
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Norma Shearer
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLACIDITY»

Discover the use of placidity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to placidity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Xunzi And Early Chinese Naturalism
nonetheless it possesses what is called placidity (jing j$). (80/21/35-36, Knoblock 21. 5d) As mentioned before, Xunzi borrows the notions of emptiness, unity, and placidity as the qualities or states of xin from Zhuangzi.59 Also, Lee Yearley ...
Janghee Lee, 2005
2
Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology
From the same perspective of socially approved stereotypes for sex-appropriate behavior, it is hardly surprising that a tendency to placidity or to explosiveness in a boy would have a different impact and acquire a different meaning than the ...
J. P. Hill, 2014
3
The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and ...
One of the primary findings in the study of animal rage is that temporal lobe ablation produces placidity, whereas temporal region arousal generally yields hostility. Experiments conducted in the 1930s produced data supporting this notion, ...
W. Edward Craighead, Charles B. Nemeroff, 2004
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Beyond Oneness and Difference: Li and Coherence in Chinese ...
Here we find a positive and noninverted rela‐ tionship between (real, non‐ironic) Li and the traditional non‐ironic virtues: The ancient practitioners of the Course used placidity to nourish their knowledge. To refrain from action based on ...
Brook Ziporyn, 2013
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The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Complete ...
person whose bodily and verbal behavior are impure and who does not gain an opening of the mind, placidity of mind, from time to time? Suppose a sick, afflicted , gravely ill person was traveling along a highway, and the last village behind ...
‎2012
6
The Neurology of Thinking
Emotional placidity was evident; her behavior was characterized by a pet-like compliance and passivity. A behavioral diagnosis of Kliiver-Bucy syndrome was made. (Lilly et al., 1983) Kliiver and Bucy (1937, 1939) described striking behavioral ...
David Frank Benson, 1994
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Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of ...
16 Mending Nature The author continues with his espousal of pureness and placidity as the best means for restoring one's original nature. A person's primary purpose should he the preservation of self by keeping things joyfully plain. Do not  ...
Zhuangzi, Victor H. Mair, 1998
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A critical assessment
All these qualifications tend to show that his placidity is that of the well-fed, of the tamed, who have lost all instinctive interest in others, who have accepted to conform. to a pattern of set rules, it is the placidity of the satisfied, of "the half- dead".
9
A Woman's Estate: Book VIII
In one respect only was he fortunate in the blood that ran through his veins and that was in the placidity of his nature, a placidity that had come to him through the milk that he had imbibed at his mother's breast, a placidity which his father had ...
Mayes Reynolds, 2012
10
The Issue of Time and Dissolution
Placidity. 050. A young man lays his head on a thousand—year—old table And listens to the motions of time as they enter his soul: Mountains of snow melting to the melody of lost summer days, Of lost armies, lost battles, lost loves, and lost ...
Frank Darwiche, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLACIDITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term placidity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ashes 2015: Stuart Broad insists Lord's was a blip and England will …
But he is clear that while England neither batted nor bowled well enough, the placidity of the surface made it a crucial toss to win. Australia won ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Geoffrey Holder exhibition looks to capture 'absolute joy' of …
For 7 Up, he urged harried Americans to purchase a “marrrvelous” sip of his island placidity; as that ad campaign reached ubiquity, he won his ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Boulevard, Robin Williams' Last Film, Is an Emotionally Confused …
The placidity of Nolan's routinized life, underscored by a muted color pallet and delicate scoring, is disturbed only when he literally crashes into ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Remembering E.L. Doctorow, author of 'Ragtime' and so much more
He deserved, but never won, the Pulitzer or the Nobel prizes, a rank injustice that Doctorow bore publicly with his usual dignity and placidity. «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
5
Gambia: The Amateurish Plan To Overthrow Jammeh
Originally colonised as a slave trading outpost at the edge of the Mali empire, it stood apart in its placidity. Its people, mostly Muslims, coexisted ... «Jollofnews, Jul 15»
6
ANDERSON: On broken windows and brown lawns
... landscaped front yards, lush bushes and manicured lawns, and often artfully placed rocks and logs, all contributing to a sort of Zen placidity. «InfoTel News Ltd, Jul 15»
7
Briefly Noted
Some of her political poems are reproduced here, their fierceness almost incongruous alongside descriptions of the charmed placidity of her ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
8
Karlovy Vary Report: An 'Arabian Nights' for the Age of Austerity
This concession may account for the relative placidity of volume three. Its central story, the 80-minute “Inebriated Chorus of the Chaffinches,” ... «Village Voice, Jul 15»
9
Supermarkets not guilty of widespread cheating of consumers, says …
Its director Richard Lloyd said the group now expects to see 'urgent enforcement action' – which seems unlikely given the placidity of the CMA's ... «Management Today, Jul 15»
10
Ta-Nehisi Coates' 'Between the World and Me': Letter to a black son
He implores his son, for instance, to reject "The Dream," Coates' name for a kind of advertisement-quality American placidity that "thrives on ... «Newsday, Jul 15»

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