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Dormancy

Dormancy Meaning & Definition
Dormancy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dormancy?

[n] quiet and inactive restfulness
[n] a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dormancy: quiescence | quiescence | quiescency | quiescency | sleeping

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dormancy: a wise passiveness | abeyance | apathy | catalepsy | catatonia | cold storage | contemplation | contemplative life | deadliness | deathliness | delitescence | doldrums | do-nothing policy | do-nothingism | do-nothingness | entropy | hibernation | idleness | immobility | inaction | inactiveness | inactivity | indifference | indolence | inertia | inertness | intermission | interruption | laissez-aller | laissez-faire | laissez-faireism | languor | latency | latent content | latent meaningfulness | latentness | lotus-eating | lull | meditation | motionlessness | neutralism | neutrality | neutralness | noninvolvement | nonparticipation | nonresistance | nonviolence | nonviolent resistance | pacifism | paralysis | passive resistance | passive self-annihilation | passiveness | passivism | passivity | policy | possibility | potentiality | procrastination | quiescence | quiescency | quietism | stagnancy | stagnation | standpattism | stasis | suspense | suspension | torpor | underactivity | vegetation | virtuality | vis inertiae | vita contemplativa | waiting game | watching and waiting

See Also | aestivation | ease | estivation | hibernation | inaction | inactiveness | inactivity | relaxation | repose | rest | slumber | vegetation

Dormancy In Webster's Dictionary

\Dor"man*cy\, n. [From {Dormant}.] The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.

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