quiescence
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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