| Main Entry: | quiescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repose |
Synonyms: |
calm, dormancy, inaction, inactivity, quiet, rest |
| Concept: | Quiescence. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
quiescence; rest; stillness; stagnation, stagnancy; fixity, immobility, catalepsy; indisturbance; quietism., quiet, tranquillity, calm; repose; peace; dead calm, anticyclone; statue-like repose; slience; not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring; sleep (inactivity)., pause, lull (cessation); stand still; standing still; lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo., resting place; gite; bivouac; home (abode); pillow (support); haven (refuge); goal (arrival).
-verbs
be quiescent; stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose, hold the hreath., remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop (discontinue)., stagnate; quieta non movere; let alone; abide, rest and be thankful; keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed., dwell (be present); settle (be located); alight (arrive) stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir a step; be at a standstill; quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on.
-adjectives
quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable (stable); sleeping (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death.
-adverbs
at a stand; tout court; at the halt.
-phrases
requiescat in pace; Deus nobis haec otia fecit [Vergil]; "the noonday quiet holds the hill" [Tennyson].
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Antonyms: |
motion |
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| Main Entry: | abeyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being inactive or suspended |
Synonyms: |
discontinuation, dormancy, inactivity, intermission, latency, postponement, quiescence, recess, remission, suspension, temporarily deferred, waiting |
Antonyms: |
action, activity, continuance, continuation, operation, renewal, revival |
| Main Entry: | intermission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, recess |
Synonyms: |
abeyance, abeyancy, break-off, breather, breathing spell, cessation, doldrums, dormancy, downtime, interim, interlude, interregnum, interruption, interval, latency, layoff, let-up, lull, parenthesis, pause, quiescence, quiescency, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, suspense, suspension, time, time-out, wait |
| Main Entry: | interruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break; interference |
Synonyms: |
abeyance, abeyancy, arrest, blackout, breach, break-off, cessation, check, cutoff, delay, disconnection, discontinuance, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, disuniting, division, doldrums, dormancy, gap, halt, hiatus, hindrance, hitch, impediment, interim, intermission, interval, intrusion, lacuna, latency, layoff, letup, obstacle, obstruction, parenthesis, pause, quiescence, rift, rupture, separation, severance, split, stop, stoppage, suspension |
Antonyms: |
continuation |
| Main Entry: | lull |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause, calm |
Synonyms: |
abeyance, break, breather, breathing spell, calmness, coffee break, comma, downtime, hiatus, hush, layoff, letup, pausation, quiescence, quiet, respite, silence, stillness, stop, time-out, tranquility |
Antonyms: |
busyness, continuation, disturbance, energy |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inactivity |
Synonyms: |
break, breather, breathing space, calm, calmness, cessation, coffee break, comfort, composure, cutoff, downtime, doze, dreaminess, ease, forty winks, halt, holiday, hush, idleness, interlude, intermission, interval, leisure, letup, lull, motionlessness, nap, pause, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietude, recess, recreation, refreshment, relaxation, relief, repose, respite, siesta, silence, sleep, slumber, somnolence, standstill, stay, stillness, stop, time off, tranquillity, vacation |
Antonyms: |
action, activity, energy |
| Main Entry: | silence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of sound, speech |
Synonyms: |
blackout, calm, censorship, dead air, death, dumbness, hush, hush-hush, inarticulateness, iron curtain, laconism, lull, muteness, noiselessness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, quietus, reserve, reticence, saturninity, secrecy, sleep, speechlessness, still, stillness, sulk, sullenness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness |
Antonyms: |
clamor, communication, noise, talk |
| Main Entry: | suspension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delay |
Synonyms: |
abeyance, abeyancy, adjournment, break, breather, breathing spell, cessation, coffee break, concluding, conclusion, cutoff, deferment, disbarment, discontinuation, discontinuing, doldrums, dormancy, downtime, end, ending, finish, five, freeze, halt, heave-ho, intermission, interruption, latency, layoff, letup, moratorium, pause, period, postponement, quiescence, quiescency, remission, respite, stay, stoppage, suspense, ten, termination, time-out |
Antonyms: |
completion, continuation, finish, persistence |
| Main Entry: | inaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of doing nothing |
Synonyms: |
acedia, deferral, deliquescence, depression, doldrums, dormancy, ennui, fecklessness, idleness, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, lassitude, lethargy, otiosity, passivity, quiescence, quietude, slothfulness, stagnation, stasis, suspension, torpidity, torpor |
Antonyms: |
action |