Quiescence

3 definitions found

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

  Quiescence \Qui*es"cence\, Quiescency \Qui*es"cen*cy\, n. [L.
     quiescentia, fr. quiescens, p. pr.; cf. F. quiestence. See
     {Quiesce}.]
     The state or quality of being quiescent. "Quiescence, bodily
     and mental." --H. Spencer.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Deeds will be done; -- while be boasts his quiescence.
                                                    --R. Browning.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  115 Moby Thesaurus words for "quiescence":
     a wise passiveness, abidingness, awful silence, changelessness,
     cold storage, constancy, contemplation, contemplative life, dead,
     dead of night, deathlike silence, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism,
     do-nothingness, doldrums, dormancy, durability, durableness,
     duration, endurance, firmness, fixedness, frozenness,
     golden silence, hardening, hibernation, hush, hush of night,
     idleness, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability,
     inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, inaudibility, indolence,
     inertia, inertness, intermission, interruption, invariability,
     invariableness, inveteracy, laissez-aller, laissez-faire,
     laissez-faireism, lastingness, latency, long standing,
     lucid stillness, lull, meditation, motionlessness, mum, neutralism,
     neutrality, neutralness, noiselessness, noninvolvement,
     nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence,
     nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance,
     passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity,
     peace, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence,
     persistency, policy, procrastination, quiescency, quiet, quietism,
     quietness, quietude, rest, rigidity, silence, silentness,
     solemn silence, solidity, soundlessness, stability, stagnancy,
     stagnation, standing, standpattism, stasis, steadfastness, still,
     stillness, suspension, tacitness, taciturnity, tomblike silence,
     torpor, tranquillity, unchangeability, unchangingness,
     underactivity, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
     watching and waiting, whisht