Serenity

The goal of meditation is to reach a state of serenity, when your mind is still and perfectly calm. Use serenity to mean the quality or state of being calm and peaceful.

  • Pronunciation: /sɪ'renɪtɪ/
  • English Description: a state of peace and quiet
  • Chinese Translation: 平静(ping2 jing4)
  • Spanish Translation: la serenidad
  • STORY: It is hard to believe that the ocean, whipped by winds during a storm, can ever return to a state of serenity, where its surface looks like glass. Serenity is from Latin serenus "calm, peaceful" plus the suffix -itas. The first part of the word is the English adjective serene, which means calm and peaceful. The Latin suffix corresponds to our English suffix -ity and has the meaning "quality or state."

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  • It turns my commute into a marvelous window of serenity.
  • It seems more dedicated to machination than to meditation, more focused on struggle than on serenity.

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