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Quiescent vs Enduring - What's the difference?

quiescent | enduring | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between quiescent and enduring

is that quiescent is inactive, at rest, quiet while enduring is long-lasting.

As a verb enduring is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun enduring is

endurance.

quiescent

English

Adjective

(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".

    Synonyms

    * still * tranquil

    Derived terms

    * quiescence * quiescently

    See also

    * acquiescent * quiesce ----

    enduring

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Long-lasting.
    • an enduring belief in democracy

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • endurance
  • * 1854 , James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians (page 14)
    • It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise

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