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English
Etymology
From Middle English serenyte, from Old French serenité, from Latin serēnitās, equivalent to serene + -ity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈɹɛnɪti/
- Hyphenation: se‧ren‧i‧ty
Noun
serenity (countable and uncountable, plural serenities)
- The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
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 193:Forthwith a change came over the waters, and the serenity became less brilliant but more profound.
1987, Greg Costikyan, “The Jedi Code”, in Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, page 69, line 3:There is no passion, there is serenity.
- A lack of agitation or disturbance.
- A title given to a reigning prince or similar dignitary.
Synonyms
Translations
state
- Arabic: سَكِينَة اَلرُّوح f (sakīnat ar-rūḥ), صَفَاء f (ṣafāʔ)
- Bulgarian: ведрина (bg) f (vedrina), безоблачност f (bezoblačnost)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 寧靜 / 宁静 (zh) (níngjìng), 平靜 / 平静 (zh) (píngjìng), 安詳 / 安详 (zh) (ānxiáng), 安寧 / 安宁 (zh) (ānníng)
- Czech: klid (cs) m, zklidnění (cs) n, poklid m
- Dutch: sereniteit (nl) f
- Finnish: tyyneys (fi)
- French: sérénité (fr)
- Galician: serenidade (gl) f
- German: Gelassenheit (de) f, Gleichmut (de) m, Klarheit (de) f, Heiterkeit (de) f,Abgeklärtheit (de) f, Ausgeglichenheit (de) f,
- Greek: γαλήνη (el) f (galíni)
- Hebrew: רֹגַע m (róga')
- Hindi: शांति (hi) (śānti)
- Hungarian: derű (hu), derültség (hu)
- Indonesian: ketenteraman (id)
- Italian: serenità (it)
- Japanese: 平静 (ja) (へいせい, heisei), セレニティ (sereniti)
- Latin: serēnitās f
- Malayalam: ആനന്ദം (ml) (ānandaṁ)
- Maori: mahurutanga, māriritanga
- Navajo: ił hodéezyéél
- Polish: spokój (pl) m
- Portuguese: serenidade (pt) f
- Romanian: seninătate (ro) f, liniște (ro) f
- Russian: безмяте́жность (ru) f (bezmjatéžnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: спокој m
- Spanish: sosiego (es) m, tranquilidad (es) f, serenidad (es)
- Swedish: lugn (sv) n, stillhet (sv) c, ro (sv) c, frid (sv) c, sinnesro (sv) c
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title given to a prince or other dignitary
Translations to be checked
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