Tacit vs Quiescent - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between tacit and quiescent

is that tacit is expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent while quiescent is inactive, at rest, quiet.

(en adjective)

Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.

tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection

* 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s'' Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , page 62:

He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.

* 2004 , Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, ?Vivien Lowndes; ISBN 9287155798):

(logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

* tacitly * tacitness

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(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