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ataraxia
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Ataraxia is an Italian neoclassical dark wave band who combine modern technology with archaic instrumentation over various media, founded by Francesca Nicoli and Michele Urbano in November, 1985. In the first five years there were many musicians in the ...
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n. peace of mind
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n. (context literary Greek philosophy English) A pleasure that comes when the mind is at rest.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Englished as ataraxy , "calmness, impassivity," c.1600, from Modern Latin, from Greek ataraxia "impassiveness," from a- , privative prefix, + tarassein (Attic tarattein ) "to disturb, confuse," from PIE root *dher- (1) "to make muddy, darken."
Usage examples of ataraxia.
Say you will go to Ataraxia with me, and I will share the mysteries of warriors of my kind, fair one.
Dreams of Ataraxia and its crystalline waters, bright sun, glistening sands .
I sent missives to this land she speaks of, Ataraxia, but received no sensible answer, merely some rambling missive about a golden fellow and boars in a forest.
A Yune who would jump at the chance to accompany me to Ataraxia as a way of avoiding dragons.
Dreams of Ataraxia and its crystalline waters, bright sun, glistening sands.
I also listen to Ataraxia, Mantra, and Sopor Aeternus, and dark ambient stuff like Endura.
Gonna buy me one of them dots out near Marlon, my refuge from the madness of me, gonna christen it Ataraxia, design my own flag, run it up a bamboo pole in the lee of a crystal cove, come visit anytime, you and Brenda or you and you, no dogs, no kids, no guests, no bells, no keys, no money.
I think simple induced ataraxia should be enough to keep you from trying to escape.
However, the final decision to write is made above all as a means to achieve permanently the state of ataraxia that he experiences only in moments of pure aesthetic contemplation.