placidity
calmness or peaceful stillness
Root
- plac: please, soothe, settle into calm
Other words with the plac root
- complacent: self-satisfied and unaware of risk
- complaisant: eager to please or agree with others
- implacable: unable to be appeased
- placate: to calm someone down
- placatory: intended to soothe, calm, or appease
- placebo: inactive treatment that may still produce a perceived benefit
- placid: calm, peaceful, and undisturbed
Placidity is calmness as a state: the settled quiet you can almost see on the surface.
Her placidity during the interview made the charged room feel manageable.
Use placidity when calm feels like an atmosphere, not a single action. A placid lake has placidity; a placid person carries that quiet into the room.