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Stillness with a spine — the body parked while the mind keeps the engine warm.
means A state of restful calm or peaceful stillness, whether of body, mind, or arrangement.
from From Old French 'reposer,' to rest, which traces back to Late Latin 'repausare' — built from 're-' (an intensifier here) plus 'pausare,' to pause or halt, itself rooted in Latin 'pausa,' a pause. So 'repose' is, at heart, a deepened pause. Note the cousins crossing in the family tree: it sits close to 'pose,' which came through a different Latin door ('ponere,' to place) but tangled with the same 'pausare' along the way — which is why both repose and pose share that sense of being deliberately set in place.
- art term
- Sculptors call relaxed weight-bearing poses contrapposto repose.
- latin root
- From reponere, to put back or store away.
- funeral usage
- The dead lie in repose before burial.
- physics cousin
- Angle of repose: steepest slope loose grains hold.
- not sleep
- Repose is rest while awake and aware.
sleeping beauty castle — disneyland's iconic castle where princess aurora lies in enchanted sleep, opened 1955
rip van winkle — washington irving's 1819 character who slept for 20 years in the catskill mountains
brancusi's sleeping muse — 1910 sculpture by constantin brancusi at museum of modern art, nyc