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dormancies

dormancies is the plural of dormancy.

Meaning of dormancy

Noun

dormancy (usually uncountable, plural dormancies)

  1. (usually) The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
    • [N]ow the big Thanksgiving dinner which they had eaten was beginning to work upon them a spell of dormancy.1902, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 2, in Behind the Line

Questions about dormancies

What is dormancies the plural of?
Dormancies is the plural of dormancy.

Words near dormancies in the dictionary

  1. dorloch
  2. dorlochs
  3. dorm
  4. dorm-cest
  5. Dorman
  6. dormancies
  7. dormancy
  8. Dormand-Prince method
  9. Dormans
  10. Dormansland
  11. dormant

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