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Word of the Day for Saturday, May 23, 2009equanimity \ee-kwuh-NIM-uh-tee; ek-wuh-\, noun: Evenness of mind; calmness; composure; as, "to bear misfortunes with equanimity." For one whose mind has been notoriously troubled, Brian Lara is at least retaining a sense of equanimity. When one is happy, one can look at both comedy and tragedy with equanimity. I think one person can hardly understand why another has conducted his life in such a way, how he came to commit certain actions and not others, whether he looks upon the past with mostly pleasure or equanimity or regret. Equanimity comes from Latin aequanimitas, "impartiality, calmness," from aequanimus, "impartial, even-tempered," from aequus, "even" + animus, "mind, soul." | |||||||
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