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English
Etymology
From overquiet + -ness.
Noun
overquietness (uncountable)
- Excessive quietness.
1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, pages 49–50: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.