Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being serene or tranquil; serenity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Serenity.
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- noun The property of being
serene .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her smile has a sereneness to it that I can only hope to one day share.
A Promise 2006
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Her smile has a sereneness to it that I can only hope to one day share.
A Promise 2006
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Her smile has a sereneness to it that I can only hope to one day share.
A Promise 2006
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Her smile has a sereneness to it that I can only hope to one day share.
The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise and Misrepresentation of Pianka. - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapors among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine.
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As she stood below it Camilla was astounded by the quality of the workmanship, which conveyed delicate folds of drapery in the hard rock and imparted a divine sereneness to the Buddha's mouth.
Call Of The Heart Delamere, Wanda 1982
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I have placed copies of "Pep" in their hands and watched courage, faith, cheer and sereneness come to them.
Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep William Crosbie Hunter
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He clambered the steep hill-side, and sinking exhausted beneath a smitten tree, enjoyed the picturesqueness of the scene; the meadows, the streams, the pasture-grounds, the dappled herds, the sereneness of the summer skies, cleft by the wing of the musical lark, in all their purity of blue.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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His whole span of years appears to have been spent with a conscience void of offense, and he approached the end with a sereneness of mind well befitting the high ideals set before him.
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And as the mellow shadows of night stole over the scene -- as the heavens looked down in all their sereneness, and the stars shone out, and twinkled, and laughed, and danced upon the blue waters, and coquetted with the moonbeams -- for the moon was up, and shedding a halo of mystic light over the scene -- making night merry, nature seemed speaking to Maria in words of condolence.
mollusque commented on the word sereneness
Isn't sereneness a wonderful word? No letters above or below the line, no waves, uniformly voweled, peaceful esses. (Time to start the reflexive list.)
December 1, 2007
sionnach commented on the word sereneness
Actually, mollusque, I'd have to disagree. For me, only 'o' and 'a' truly work in monovocalic words of this length. Too many 'i' vowels and it's mealy-mouthed; too many repeated 'e's and you end up with an ugly sequence like the 'enene' at the core of this word. Furthermore, the two adjacent (but not coincident) 'n' sounds in this word make it hard to pronounce - a reason, I imagine, why use of the alternative "serenity" is more common.
So I think that sereneness is deficient both on aesthetic and practical grounds.
December 1, 2007
mollusque commented on the word sereneness
So sionnach, would you say that serene is serener that sereneness?
December 1, 2007