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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 qui·et·ism /ˈkwaɪəˌtɪzəm/
 寂靜主義,精神的平靜

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Qui·et·ism n.
 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 quietism
      n : a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all
          human effort and passive contemplation of God