dormancy

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔː.mən.si/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɹ.mən.si/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈdoː.mən.si/

Noun

dormancy (usually uncountable, plural dormancies)

1. The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
   • 1902, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 2, in Behind the Line:

     [N]ow the big Thanksgiving dinner which they had eaten was beginning to work upon them a spell of dormancy.

Synonyms

• inactivity
• quiescence
• sleep

Derived terms

• antidormancy
• ecodormancy
• endodormancy
• nondormancy
• paradormancy
• semidormancy
• superdormancy

 

Translations

state of being dormant

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 休止 (jau¹ zi²)

  Mandarin: 休止 (zh) (xiūzhǐ)

• Finnish: lepotila, uneliaisuus (fi)
• Japanese: 休止 (ja) (kyūshi), 休眠 (ja) (kyūmin), 睡眠 (ja) (suimin)
• Russian: спя́чка (ru) f (spjáčka)

Anagrams

• mordancy