Staidness
adjective
1.
of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
2.
fixed, settled, or permanent.
verb
3.
Archaic. a simple past tense and past participle of stay1 .
adjective
1.
of a settled, sedate, and steady character
2.
(rare) permanent
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