Calm vs. Qualm — What's the Difference?

Not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions

An uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course of action

(of the weather) pleasantly free from wind

A sudden disturbing feeling

The absence of strong emotions; calm feelings

A sudden feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea.

The absence of wind

A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.

Make (someone) tranquil and quiet; soothe

A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.

Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed

A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt.

Not excited or agitated; composed

Mortality; plague; pestilence.

An absence or cessation of motion; stillness.

A calamity or disaster.

A condition of no wind or a wind with a speed of less than 1 knot (1.15 miles per hour; 1.9 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.

(intransitive) To have a sickly feeling.

Tranquility or serenity

Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.

To make or become calm or quiet

A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.

(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.

Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.

(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.

A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.

(of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.

Uneasiness about the fitness of an action

Without wind or storm.

A mild state of nausea

(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.

(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.

A period of time without wind.

(transitive) To make calm.

(intransitive) To become calm.

Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.

To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.

To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.

Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.

Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.

Steadiness of mind under stress;

Make calm or still;

Make steady;

Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation;

Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to;

Not agitated; without losing self-possession;

Characterized by absence of emotional agitation;

(of weather) free from storm or wind;

Marked by freedom from agitation or excitement;