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▸ noun: Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
▸ noun: Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.
▸ noun: A condition of hovering, or being suspended.
▸ noun: (physics) A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Weight; an amount of weight, the amount something weighs.
▸ noun: The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
▸ noun: That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To be of a given weight; to weigh.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To add weight to, to weigh down.
▸ verb: (now rare) To hold (something) with or against something else in equilibrium; to balance, counterpose.
▸ verb: To hold (something) in equilibrium, to hold balanced and ready; to carry (something) ready to be used.
▸ verb: To keep (something) in equilibrium; to hold suspended or balanced.
▸ verb: To ascertain, as if by balancing; to weigh.
Similar:
balance,
aplomb,
assuredness,
cool,
self-possession,
sang-froid,
brace,
grace,
mood,
ballast,
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Opposite:
Types:
aplomb,
equanimity,
imperturbability,
nonchalance,
phlegm,
stoicism,
stolidity,
unflappability,
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