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dormancy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dormancy has 2 senses
- dormancy(n = noun.state) quiescence, quiescency - a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy" is a kind of inaction, inactiveness, inactivity
- dormancy(n = noun.act) quiescence, quiescency, sleeping - quiet and inactive restfulness; Array is a kind of ease, relaxation, repose, rest
has particulars: hibernation, aestivation, estivation, slumber
Derived forms adjective dormant4, adjective dormant2, adjective dormant1
has particulars: vegetation
Derived form adjective dormant1
THESAURUS
dormancy
a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cold storage, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, delitescence, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, doldrums, 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
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