Usually means: Lying down, especially for rest.
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  1. recumbence: Merriam-Webster
  2. recumbence: Collins English Dictionary
  3. recumbence: Wordnik
  4. recumbence: Wiktionary
  5. Recumbence, recumbence: Dictionary.com
  6. Recumbence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. recumbence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Recumbence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. recumbence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. recumbence: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Recumbence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recumbence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recumbence: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (recumbence)

▸ noun:  The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.

Similar:
reclination, reclining, reposal, resupination, downsitting, rebecoming, recursion, accubation, remanation, reposall, more...

Opposite:
upright, standing, erect

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Similar:
reclination, reclining, reposal, resupination, downsitting, rebecoming, recursion, accubation, remanation, reposall, more...

Opposite:
upright, standing, erect



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