'Quiescence' definitions:
Definition of 'quiescence'
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 'Quiescence'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'quiescence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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