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the art of looking unbothered while your insides audition for a disaster movie.
means the state of staying calm, steady, and self-controlled, especially under pressure.
from From 'compose' plus the suffix '-ure,' which builds nouns of state or action. 'Compose' came through Old French 'composer' from the Latin idea of 'putting together' (com-, 'together,' joined to a root tangled up with 'pause' and placing). So composure is literally the self 'put together' — all your pieces arranged neatly on the outside, whatever chaos is shuffling them within.
- heart rate
- Calm posture can actually slow your pulse
- poker roots
- Pros call the unreadable face a stone cold front
- word origin
- From Latin componere, to put together
- crisis pilots
- Sully's calm voice landed 155 on water
- breath trick
- Slow exhales hijack the nervous system toward calm