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)

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.

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Translations

state of being dormant

Chinese:
Cantonese: 休止 (jau¹ zi²)

Mandarin: 休止 (zh) (xiūzhǐ)
Finnish: lepotila, uneliaisuus (fi)
French: dormance (fr) f
German: Dormanz f
Italian: quiescenza (it) f
Japanese: 休止 (ja) (kyūshi), 休眠 (ja) (kyūmin), 睡眠 (ja) (suimin)
Portuguese: dormência f
Russian: спя́чка (ru) f (spjáčka)
Spanish: dormancia f
Turkish: dormansi, uyku hali

Anagrams

mordancy

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