\Qui"et*ism\, n. [Cf. F. qui['e]tisme.]
1. Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference;
   apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained
   that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from
   worldly interests and anxieties and its constant
   employment in the passive contemplation of God and his
   attributes.