overquietness

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noun

Excessive quietness.

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Meanings

nounoverquietness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableExcessive quietness.

    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.

    1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, pages 49–50

Origin

From overquiet + -ness.

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