Sedentary vs Quiescent - What's the difference?
sedentary | quiescent |
Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
Not moving much; sitting around.
* Bishop Warburton
* Beaconsfield
(obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
* Milton
* Spectator
(obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
* Milton
Inactive, at rest, quiet.
* Professor Wilson
(grammar) Not sounded; silent.
As adjectives the difference between sedentary and quiescent
is that sedentary is not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity while quiescent is inactive, at rest, quiet.sedentary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The oyster is a sedentary''' mollusk; the barnacles are '''sedentary crustaceans.
- Sedentary , scholastic sophists.
- Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.
- The sedentary earth.
- The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.
- Sedentary numbness.
Synonyms
* settledAntonyms
* migratory * activequiescent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.
- In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist.
- The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".