quietness

The word “quietness” has 3 syllables: qui-et-ness

It's pronounced as /ˈkwaɪət.nəs/


What is synonym and antonym for quietness?

In the thesaurus, “quietness” has 57 synonyms and 28 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for quietness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for quietness

  • blackout
  • calm
  • calmness
  • casualness
  • censorship
  • comity
  • concord
  • dead air
  • death
  • dumbness
  • easygoingness
  • harmony
  • hush
  • hush-hush
  • inaction
  • inactivity
  • inarticulateness
  • informality
  • iron curtain
  • laconism
  • laid-backness
  • lull
  • mildness
  • muteness
  • noiselessness
  • pause
  • peace
  • peacefulness
  • placidity
  • placidness
  • quiescence
  • quiet
  • quietude
  • relaxedness
  • repose
  • reserve
  • respite
  • restfulness
  • reticence
  • saturninity
  • secrecy
  • sereneness
  • serenity
  • silence
  • sleep
  • soothingness
  • soundlessness
  • speechlessness
  • still
  • stillness
  • sulk
  • sullenness
  • taciturnity
  • tranquility
  • tranquillity
  • uncommunicativeness
  • untroubledness

Antonyms for quietness

  • agitation
  • babel
  • blare
  • bluster
  • bustle
  • cacophony
  • chatter
  • clamor
  • clangor
  • commotion
  • din
  • disturbance
  • hubbub
  • hurly-burly
  • loudness
  • noise
  • pandemonium
  • racket
  • rattle
  • roar
  • sound
  • tumult
  • turbulence
  • turmoil
  • unquietness
  • unrest
  • uproar
  • violence

Meanings of quietness

  • noun
    1. Absence of sound; silence or hush.
    2. Absence of disturbance; calm, stillness or serenity.

Example Sentences

  • The quietness of the library allowed me to focus on my studies.
  • In the early morning, I enjoy the peaceful quietness of the countryside.
  • She found solace in the quietness of her own thoughts.
  • The quietness of the forest was interrupted only by the occasional chirping of birds.
  • As the sun set, the city streets fell into a comforting quietness.

On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to quietness, such as: agitation, babel, blackout, blare, bluster, bustle, cacophony.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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ease

  • abandon
  • abandonment
  • abate
  • abbreviate
  • abet
  • abridge
  • accelerate
  • adroitness
  • advance
  • affability
  • affluence
  • aid
  • allay
  • alleviate
  • alleviation
  • ameliorate
  • amend
  • anesthetize
  • aplomb
  • appease
  • appeasement
  • ardor
  • assist
  • assuage
  • assuagement
  • ataraxia
  • attend to
  • bed of roses
  • better
  • blank check
  • breeze
  • calm
  • calming
  • calmness
  • carelessness
  • carte blanche
  • casualness
  • catnapping
  • cheer
  • cinch
  • clear the way
  • cleverness
  • clip
  • collapse
  • comfort
  • composure
  • compress
  • condense
  • constrict
  • content
  • contentment
  • contract
  • correct
  • crop
  • cure
  • curtail
  • cut
  • cut back
  • cut down
  • de-escalate
  • decline
  • decompression
  • decrease
  • deflate
  • dent
  • deplete
  • detach
  • dexterity
  • diminish
  • diminishment
  • disburden
  • disengage
  • disentangle
  • dispatch
  • dock
  • doctor
  • dolce far niente
  • downscale
  • downsize
  • dozing
  • drop
  • duck soup
  • dwindle
  • easiness
  • easygoingness
  • ebb
  • edge
  • efficiency
  • effortlessness
  • emend
  • enhance
  • enrich
  • enthusiasm
  • evaporate
  • excess
  • excessiveness
  • expedite
  • expertise
  • expertness
  • extricate
  • exuberance
  • facilitate
  • fall
  • fall away
  • familiarity
  • fervor
  • fix
  • flag
  • flexibility
  • fluency
  • forward
  • free
  • free hand
  • further
  • give out
  • gratification
  • grease
  • handle
  • happiness
  • hasten
  • heal
  • heedlessness
  • help
  • hurry
  • idleness
  • immoderacy
  • improve
  • impulsiveness
  • impulsivity
  • inactivity
  • inch
  • incontinence
  • indiscretion
  • induce
  • indulgence
  • inertia
  • inertness
  • informality
  • insert
  • insouciance
  • intemperance
  • join
  • knack
  • knock down
  • lazing
  • leisure
  • lessen
  • let up
  • let up on
  • liberty
  • licentiousness
  • lift
  • lighten
  • lightheartedness
  • loose
  • loosen
  • lower
  • luxury
  • make easier
  • maneuver
  • meliorate
  • mend
  • minimize
  • mitigate
  • mitigation
  • moderate
  • moderation
  • modify
  • modulate
  • mollification
  • mollify
  • napping
  • naturalness
  • nick
  • nonchalance
  • nurse
  • offhandedness
  • open the door
  • pacify
  • pall
  • palliate
  • pare
  • peace
  • peace of mind
  • peacefulness
  • perfect
  • permissiveness
  • phase down
  • placidity
  • poise
  • promote
  • prosperity
  • prune
  • pushover
  • qualify
  • quicken
  • quickness
  • quiet
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • readiness
  • recede
  • recklessness
  • rectify
  • reduce
  • refine
  • reform
  • relax
  • relaxation
  • relaxedness
  • release
  • relent
  • relief
  • relieve
  • remedy
  • remit
  • remove
  • repair
  • repose
  • requiescence
  • respite
  • rest
  • restfulness
  • resting
  • retrench
  • right
  • run interference for
  • rush
  • salving
  • satisfaction
  • security
  • sereneness
  • serenity
  • set right
  • setup
  • shorten
  • shrink
  • silence
  • simplicity
  • simplify
  • sink
  • skillfulness
  • slack
  • slacken
  • slash
  • sleep
  • slide
  • slip
  • slumber
  • slumbering
  • smooth
  • smooth sailing
  • smoothness
  • snap
  • snoozing
  • soften
  • soothe
  • soothing
  • speed
  • speed up
  • spirit
  • spontaneity
  • spontaneousness
  • squeeze
  • steer
  • still
  • stillness
  • streamline
  • subside
  • supinity
  • taper
  • taper off
  • temper
  • thoughtlessness
  • tranquility
  • tranquilize
  • tranquillity
  • tranquilness
  • trim
  • truncate
  • unaffectedness
  • unbind
  • unclog
  • unconstraint
  • undo
  • unfasten
  • uninhibitedness
  • unreservedness
  • unrestraint
  • unself-consciousness
  • untangle
  • untie
  • untighten
  • vanish
  • wane
  • wantonness
  • warmth
  • weaken
  • whittle
  • wildness
  • zeal
  • zealotry
  • zealousness

laconism

  • abbreviation
  • abridgement
  • abridgment
  • abruptness
  • blackout
  • brevity
  • briefness
  • brusqueness
  • calm
  • censorship
  • compendiousness
  • compression
  • conciseness
  • condensation
  • contraction
  • crispness
  • curtailment
  • curtness
  • dead air
  • death
  • decreasing
  • diminishing
  • dumbness
  • hush
  • hush-hush
  • inarticulateness
  • iron curtain
  • lessening
  • littleness
  • lull
  • minuteness
  • muteness
  • noiselessness
  • peace
  • pithiness
  • quiescence
  • quiet
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • reducing
  • reserve
  • reticence
  • saturninity
  • secrecy
  • shortening
  • shortness
  • shrinking
  • sleep
  • smallness
  • soundlessness
  • speechlessness
  • still
  • stillness
  • succinctness
  • sulk
  • sullenness
  • taciturnity
  • tautness
  • terseness
  • tininess
  • uncommunicativeness
  • wordlessness

obedience

  • abidance
  • acceptance
  • accession
  • accordance
  • acquiescence
  • adherence
  • affability
  • agreeability
  • agreement
  • amenability
  • amiability
  • amicability
  • assent
  • attendance
  • attention
  • biddability
  • capitulation
  • complaisance
  • compliance
  • compliancy
  • conformability
  • conformance
  • conformity
  • congeniality
  • consent
  • control
  • cooperativeness
  • cordiality
  • deference
  • discipline
  • docility
  • duteousness
  • dutifulness
  • duty
  • friendliness
  • geniality
  • good-naturedness
  • heed
  • honor
  • humility
  • humoring
  • indulgence
  • inhibition
  • keeping
  • manageability
  • meekness
  • modesty
  • notice
  • obeisance
  • obsequiousness
  • observance
  • observation
  • order
  • orderliness
  • quietness
  • receptiveness
  • receptivity
  • regard
  • repression
  • respect
  • restraint
  • reverence
  • servility
  • slavishness
  • sociability
  • submission
  • submissiveness
  • subordinateness
  • subordination
  • subservience
  • subserviency
  • suppression
  • surrender
  • tameness
  • teachableness
  • tractability
  • tractableness
  • trainability
  • upholding
  • willingness
  • yielding

taciturnity

  • aloofness
  • backwardness
  • calmness
  • caution
  • coldness
  • constraint
  • control
  • coyness
  • demureness
  • diffidence
  • dumbness
  • formality
  • inarticulacy
  • inarticulateness
  • inhibition
  • modesty
  • muteness
  • quietness
  • reluctance
  • repression
  • reservation
  • reserve
  • restraint
  • reticence
  • reticency
  • secretiveness
  • self-control
  • self-restraint
  • shyness
  • silence
  • speechlessness
  • stillness
  • suppression
  • uncommunicativeness
  • unresponsiveness
  • voicelessness

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