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Quiescence vs Quiescency - What's the difference?

quiescence | quiescency |

As nouns the difference between quiescence and quiescency

is that quiescence is the state of being quiescent; dormancy while quiescency is quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest.

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.

    • References

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    quiescency

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Quiescence: the state of being quiescent, or at rest

    • Usage notes

    *Classified by Garner as a "needless variant" of quiescence: Garner's Modern American Usage]'', ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=35dZpfMmxqsC&pg=PA728 Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage