equanimity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   steadiness of mind under stress

   We tried to accept our problems with equanimity.

From French équanimité, from Latin aequanimitās (“calmness, equanimity”), from aequus (“even; calm; fair”) + animus (“mind, soul”) + -itās. By surface analysis, equ- + anim(us) + -ity.

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