dormancy

The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.

Noun

  1. 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:

Forms

dormancies

Synonyms

inactivity quiescence sleep

Derived

antidormancy ecodormancy endodormancy hyperdormancy nondormancy paradormancy semidormancy superdormancy