An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PLACIDITY
repose, quiet, placidity, serenity, tranquillity, tranquility
(noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion
placidity, placidness
(noun) a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
placidity (usually uncountable, plural placidities)
The state of being placid; peacefulness.
Synonyms
• (state of being placid): composure, peacefulness, serenity
Source: Wiktionary
Pla*cid"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. placiditas: cf. F. placidité.]
Definition: The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity. Hawthorne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
27 May 2025
DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
Coffee Trivia
