Noun
Alt. of Quiescency
Source: Webster's dictionaryOur heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest. But this rest itself is an intense form of activity where utter quiescence and unceasing energy meet at the same point in love. Rabindranath Tagore
Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions. Will Self
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women. William Lyon Phelps
the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy Source: Internet
During the period of low X-ray emission (called quiescence), the accretion disc is extremely faint allowing detailed observation of the companion star during this period. Source: Internet
Once the chilling period is fulfilled, the plant enters a second type of dormancy, the quiescence period. Source: Internet