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| Main Entry: |
quiescence
 [kwee-es-uhnt, kwahy-] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repose |
| Synonyms: | calm, dormancy, inaction, inactivity, quiet, rest |
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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 |
Example Sentences
- The reasons for the unusual quiescence of inflation over the past decade are keenly debated.
- But then he settled back into a curiously unpredictable pattern of alternating quiescence and conviction.
- Geysers go through periods of activity and quiescence.
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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