Calmness is the quality of being untroubled and free from agitation. Admire his calmness.
It is built from calm with the ending -ness, which turns an adjective into a quality. Calmness in a crisis is usually training rather than temperament.
1nouncalmnessThe quality of being untroubled and free from agitation, named with the noun ending -ness.
“Her calmness through the whole evening steadied everybody else.”
calmness is a quality.
Ancient Greek
καῦμα — heat, especially of the sun
Latin
cauma — heat of the midday sun
roa-oit
calma
Middle French
calme
Middle English
calm
English
calm
English, today
calmness
Built from
From calm + -ness. calm comes from Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from roa-oit calma, of unknown origin. calma may derive from Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (“heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (“to burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also lng, chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”). Displaced native smilte from smylte.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA