dormancy
nounUK /ˈdɔː.mən.si/ · CA, US /ˈdɔɹ.mən.si/
1
Usually The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
- [N]ow the big Thanksgiving dinner which they had eaten was beginning to work upon them a spell of dormancy.1902, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 2, in Behind the Line:
- Synonyms
- inactivity, quiescence, sleep
- Derived terms
- antidormancy, ecodormancy, endodormancy, hyperdormancy, nondormancy, paradormancy, semidormancy, superdormancy