quiescence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a state of quiet, but possibly temporary, inaction

   My quiescence was interrupted by a knock at the door.

2. 2
   noun

   The state of being quiescent; dormancy.

   Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.

From quiescent + -ence, or borrowed from Latin quiescentia, from quiescens, present participle of quiesco, from quies.

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