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Inactivity vs Quiescence - What's the difference?

inactivity | quiescence |

As nouns the difference between inactivity and quiescence

is that inactivity is the quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness while quiescence is the state of being quiescent; dormancy.

inactivity

English

Noun

  • The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.
  • Derived terms

    * masterly inactivity

    quiescence

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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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