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English
Noun
peace of mind (uncountable)
- The absence of mental turmoil or anxiety.
- Synonyms: calmness, inner peace, peace, peacefulness, repose, serenity, tranquillity; see also Thesaurus:calmness
1726, Jonathan Swift, chapter 18, in Gulliver's Travels:These people are under continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minute's peace of mind.
1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 32, in Oliver Twist:Who can describe the pleasure and delight, the peace of mind and soft tranquillity, the sickly boy felt in the balmy air, and among the green hills and rich woods, of an inland village!
1917, P. G. Wodehouse, “Crowned Heads”, in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories:Genevieve was tall and blonde, a destroyer of masculine peace of mind.
2006 April 15, “Dalai Lama: Tibet Wants Autonomy, Not Independence”, in Time, retrieved 26 May 2015:Peace of mind is good for health, good for community, good for family, and also for physical growth.
2024 January 24, Pip Dunn, “Adventure on a GA Class 20 Aventra”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 52:The basic toilet has quite a heavy door, which then bleeps to remind you to lock it - with a nice, peace of mind, manual lock.
Translations
absence of mental stress
- Arabic: سَكِينَة f (sakīna), طُمَأْنِينَة f (ṭumaʔnīna)
- Egyptian Arabic: راحة البال f (raḥet el-bal)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 安心 (zh) (ānxīn), 放心 (zh) (fàngxīn), 心境平和 (xīnjìng pínghé), 平常心 (píngchángxīn)
- Danish: sindsro c
- Dutch: zielenrust (nl) c, gemoedsrust (nl) f
- Finnish: mielenrauha (fi)
- French: tranquillité d’esprit (fr) f
- German: Seelenfrieden (de) m
- Greek: γαλήνη (el) f (galíni)
- Italian: serenità (it) f, tranquillità (it) f
- Japanese: 安心 (ja) (あんしん, anshin)
- Latvian: dvēseles miers m
- Norwegian: ro i sinnet m
- Polish: spokój umysłu m
- Portuguese: serenidade (pt) f, tranquilidade (pt) f
- Russian: душе́вное споко́йствие n (dušévnoje spokójstvije), споко́йствие ду́ха n (spokójstvije dúxa)
- Spanish: paz del espíritu f
- Swedish: sinnesro (sv) c, sinnesfrid (sv) c
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