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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