'Dormancy' definitions:
Definition of 'dormancy'
From: WordNet
noun
A state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy" [syn: dormancy, quiescence, quiescency]
noun
Definition of 'Dormancy'
From: GCIDE
- Dormancy \Dor"man*cy\, n. [From Dormant.] The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dormancy'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dormancy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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