Laconic vs Quiescent - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between laconic and quiescent

is that laconic is using as few words as possible; pithy and concise while quiescent is inactive, at rest, quiet.

(Laconic phrase)

(en adjective)

Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.

* Alexander Pope

I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.

* Welwood

His sense was strong and his style laconic .

* concise, pithy, terse

* bombastic, long-winded, verbose, loquacious, prolix

(en adjective)

Inactive, at rest, quiet.

The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.

* Professor Wilson

In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist.

(grammar) Not sounded; silent.

The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".

* still * tranquil

* quiescence * quiescently