quietude

plural quietudes

1. uncountableusuallySynonym of quietness (“absence of sound”)

   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.

   2026 June 29, A. S. Bariwch, The Senses: Perception and Experience (Cambridge Elements: Elements in Philosophy of Mind), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, →ISBN, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2026

   Synonyms: quietness

2. uncountableusuallytranquility

   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...

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 169

   1 more example

   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.

   1947 November and December, B. K. Cooper, “Steam Working in the Brighton District”, in Railway Magazine, page 381

   Synonyms: peace, serenity, tranquility