the quality of remaining calm and undisturbed; evenness of mind or temper; composure
Origin of equanimity
Classical Latin aequanimitas from aequanimis from aequus, even, plain + animus, the mind: see animal
noun
Equanimity is defined as being calm and maintaining your emotions, especially in bad situations.
An example of equanmity is when you react calmly when you are given bad news about your health or your job.
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noun
The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure.
Origin of equanimity
Latin aequanimitās from aequanimus even-tempered, impartial aequus even animus mind ; see anə- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural equanimities)
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Sentence Examples
- Gentleness, equanimity and benevolence were native to him.
- It is not too much to say that his imperturbable equanimity, his serene bonhomie kept the host together.
- As regards his execution of the former part of his duties, it is sufficient to say that he preserved his equanimity undisturbed in the darkest hours of peril, and that the strict impartiality of his conduct incurred alternate praise and blame from the fanatics on either side.
- The reception of Maud from the critics, however, was the worst trial to his equanimity which Tennyson had ever had to endure, nor had the future anything like it in store fort him.
- Unable to consider with equanimity the loss of the autonomy of their group and its reduction to the level of a special division of the fungi.
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