settledness

Examples

• All

• The church has been unmoored and should joyfully take leave of the settledness of Constantinian social arrangements that gave it privilege and power.

  Academic text (2008)

• The settledness of her thoughts allowed her to make clearer decisions about her future.

• A settledness that I'd never known with any man.

  Fiction book (1999)

• She nodded, smiled, with a clear direct look into my eyes, and took her place at the table with that quietness of being, the settledness of her that I find so alluring.

  Fiction book (2001)

• After years of moving around, I finally found a settledness in this community that feels like home.

Synonyms

I

inhabitancy

vssettledness

1 7.8

The state of living permanently in a place

is broader, meaning being fixed or established in place or condition

I

inhabitation

vssettledness

1 6.6

Living in a place as a permanent home

is broader, covering being settled or established in many senses

I

inhabitance

vssettledness

6.0

Living in a place

is broader, referring to being fixed or established beyond just living there

Antonyms

U

unsettledness

6.7

A time of changeable weather with sudden rain and wind

How Settled

rootedness

1 6.2

settledness

7.4

instability

114 5.1

unsettledness

6.7

transience

2 8.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology