Dormancy
Winter
Winter noun - A period of often involuntary inactivity or idleness.
Usage example: during the long winter when the party was out of power, it had plenty of time to reconsider its political priorities
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Synonyms for Winter
Dormancy and winter are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dormancy" instead a noun "Winter".
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In Wu Xing, there are five elements, but Fire, Water (defined by coldness, Winter and darkness, thus ice) and Metal (in which lightning falls under) are more distinct and more closely follow the life/death model seen above (Fire = Life, Metal = Decay/Death and Water = Death/Afterlife/Dormancy).
Source: Fire, Ice, Lightning
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Winter and Dormancy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dormancy/winter
Dormancy & Winter. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dormancy/winter>.
Winter or Dormancy. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dormancy/winter.
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