Equanimity is calmness of mind under pressure. With great equanimity, accept it with equanimity, admirable equanimity.
It nearly always appears as with equanimity and describes receiving news rather than acting, which is what separates it from courage. The Latin is even mind, which is exactly what it names.
1nounequanimityCalmness of mind under pressure.
“She accepted the bad news with remarkable equanimity and started planning what to do next.”
equanimity is a calmness.
Latin aequanimitas joins aequus, even, and animus, mind.
Latin
aequanimitās — calmness, equanimity
French
équanimité
English, today
equanimity
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From French équanimité, from Latin aequanimitās (“calmness, equanimity”), from aequus (“even; calm; fair”) + animus (“mind, soul”) + -itās. by surface analysis, en + anim(us) + animus + ity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA