waiting game (n.)
- acceptance
- contemplation
- dormancy
- endurance
- forbearance
- fortitude
- idleness
- immobility
- inaction
- inactivity
- indolence
- indulgence
- inertia
- inertness
- lenience
- leniency
- long-sufferance
- long-suffering
- longanimity
- meditation
- neutralism
- neutrality
- nonparticipation
- nonresistance
- nonviolence
- pacifism
- paralysis
- passiveness
- passivism
- passivity
- patience
- perseverance
- policy
- procrastination
- quiescence
- quietism
- self-control
- stagnancy
- stagnation
- stasis
- stoicism
- sufferance
- tolerance
- toleration
- vegetation
