quiescence
- n a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction
- n quiet and inactive restfulness
- By removing democracy's centerpiece to a less conspicuous and more controlled location, they apparently hope to cow China's tiny human rights movement into quiescencewithout .
- In Chechnya, the breakaway province bombed and bludgeoned into quiescence by Putin since taking office in 2000, some 99.
- For one thing, this is the time of year when the reptiles emerge from cold-weather quiescence and enter the mating season.