dormancy
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dormancy \Dor"man*cy\, n. [From {Dormant}.]
The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
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It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very
rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a
people. --Burke.
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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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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