Hesychia (disambiguation)

Hesychia or Hesykhia may refer to:

  • Hesychia, the word from which Hesychasm, a tradition of prayer in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is derived
  • In Greek mythology, either the daemon personification of silence, a handmaiden of the god of sleep, Hypnos; or Hesychia (mythology), a mortal daughter of Thespius
  • Synonym for Zygaena, genus of moths
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