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dormancy 音标拼音: [d'ɔrmənsi] n. 睡眠,冬眠,潜伏 睡眠,冬眠,潜伏 dormancy n 1: a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy" [synonym: {dormancy}, {quiescence}, {quiescency}] 2: quiet and inactive restfulness [synonym: {quiescence}, {quiescency}, {dormancy}, {sleeping}] Dormancy \Dor"man*cy\, n. [From {Dormant}.] The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. [1913 Webster] Dormancy \Dor"man*cy\, n. [From {Dormant}.] The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. [1913 Webster] It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 2. (Her.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from {couchant}. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] 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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