The state of being placid; peacefulness.
And how could she bear such behaviour! Composure with a witness! to look on, while repeated attentions were offering to another woman, before her face, and not resent it.—That is a degree of placidity, which I can neither comprehend nor respect.
From placid + -ity, from Latin placiditās (“mildness, placidity”).
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