chrysalism

Etymology
From. The thunderstorm sense was coined by  creator.

Noun

 * 1)  A state of transition or development.
 * 2) * 1947, A. F. Price, The Jewel of Transcendental Wisdom: (Chan Kang Ching), page 11:
 * The world, however perfected it may become by means of utilitarian science, however utopian it may be made by human effort, can never be more, at best, than a state of chrysalism, preparatory to the incomparably greater state of Nirvāna.
 * 1)  A state of dormancy or rest.
 * 2) * 1841, John Wilson Crocker, letter published in The Croker Papers The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker (1884), page 195:
 * The very sight of your writing, my dear Sir, does me good. Here I am still in my armed chair, having been during the last fourteen weeks three times out of the house–once to call at Dorchester House, once to dine with Sir Francis Burdett, and once on unavoidable business, all of which days were mild and moist. I have by reducing myself to this state of chrysalism, quite escaped cough, and hope now to act butterfly on the large scale.
 * 1)  The sheltered tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
 * 1) * 1841, John Wilson Crocker, letter published in The Croker Papers The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker (1884), page 195:
 * The very sight of your writing, my dear Sir, does me good. Here I am still in my armed chair, having been during the last fourteen weeks three times out of the house–once to call at Dorchester House, once to dine with Sir Francis Burdett, and once on unavoidable business, all of which days were mild and moist. I have by reducing myself to this state of chrysalism, quite escaped cough, and hope now to act butterfly on the large scale.
 * 1)  The sheltered tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
 * 1)  The sheltered tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.