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Acquiescence vs Quiescence - What's the difference?

acquiescence | quiescence |

As nouns the difference between acquiescence and quiescence

is that acquiescence is a silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction while quiescence is the state of being quiescent; dormancy.

acquiescence

English

(wikipedia acquiescence)

Noun

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  • A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
  • (legal) Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.

    • Related terms

    * acquiesce

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    quiescence

    English

    Noun

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  • The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
  • Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
  • The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
  • *1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
  • *:I pray you, Salviatus, to tell me ... the cause of the Pendulum's quiescence .
  • (microbiology) When a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.

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