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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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

2. 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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3. 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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Thesaurus Results for Dormancy:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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