windlessness


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Noun1.windlessness - calmness without winds
stillness
calmness - an absence of strong winds or rain
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the windlessness of these afternoons--there's one bobbing near my
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Wherever it is situated, each poem resounds with the "quiet that is the music of that place, / which is the difference between silence and windlessness." In such stillness, the poet does equal justice both to lost companions and the soul in solitude, but rarely addresses the living.
Jack Gilbert. Refusing Heaven
'But a lot of people can do it now.' Because of the state of windlessness that has descended on this part of Scotland, because of the hardness of the fairways, players are moving the ball such vast distances that the advantage the long hitters have over the not-so-long has been minimised.
The Open - Relaxed Monty driven by improved putting

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