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Etymology
From placid + -ity, from Latin placiditās (“mildness, placidity”).
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placidity (usually uncountable, plural placidities)
- The state of being placid; peacefulness.
1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 10:And how could she bear such behaviour! Composure with a witness! to look on, while repeated attentions were offering to another woman, before her face, and not resent it.—That is a degree of placidity, which I can neither comprehend nor respect.
1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVI, in Duty and Inclination: , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 207:Thus, in rapid succession, passed the thoughts of Rosilia, who, endeavouring to assume placidity, once more essayed to express her thanks to Mrs. Melbourne for her kind attentions, […]
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 200:The swift and indifferent placidity of that look troubled me.
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