Overquietness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Excessive quietness. uncountable

    "To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail […] were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks."

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"To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail […] were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks."

Etymology

From overquiet + -ness.

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