Dormancy

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dormancy \Dor"man*cy\, n. [From {Dormant}.]
     The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Dormancy \Dor"man*cy\, n. [From {Dormant}.]
     The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very
           rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a
           people.                                  --Burke.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Her.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; --
        distinguished from {couchant}.
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     {Dormant partner} (Com.), a partner who takes no share in the
        active business of a company or partnership, but is
        entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share
        in losses; -- called also {sleeping partner} or {silent
        partner}.
  
     {Dormant window} (Arch.), a dormer window. See {Dormer}.
  
     {Table dormant}, a stationary table. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dormancy
       n 1: a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the
            volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy" [syn: {quiescence},
             {quiescency}]
       2: quiet and inactive restfulness [syn: {quiescence}, {quiescency},
           {sleeping}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "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