pacific

Yes, it's an ocean, of course. As most of us know, the word also means peaceful and tranquil. Those who, like me, find the latter meaning more pleasing for its lack of a tether to anything corporeal, may feel the word suffers from the former. To tie a concept to an object, after all, may be to impose unfair boundaries upon it. But "pacific" seems to overcome this, as the object to which it has become tied hardly imposes boundaries at all. It endows the abstract meaning with a sense of grandeur and majesty that fits the original definition, amplifying and expanding it, giving it a sense of permanence, which in turn deepens the very connotation of tranquility with a sense of certainty.