Associations to the word «Composure»

Wiktionary

COMPOSURE, noun. Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.
COMPOSURE, noun. (obsolete) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
COMPOSURE, noun. (obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.
COMPOSURE, noun. (obsolete) frame; make; temperament
COMPOSURE, noun. (obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.

Dictionary definition

COMPOSURE, noun. Steadiness of mind under stress; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne