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Quietness vs Quiescence - What's the difference?

quietness | quiescence |

As nouns the difference between quietness and quiescence

is that quietness is absence of sound; silence or hush while quiescence is the state of being quiescent; dormancy.

quietness

English

Noun

(quietnesses)
  • Absence of sound; silence or hush.
  • Absence of disturbance; calm, stillness or serenity.

    • Synonyms

    * (absence of sound) silence, roo

    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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