'dormant knowledge' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe knowledge that exists but is not actively used or engaged with. For example, "The teacher had a wealth of dormant knowledge that he was eager to share with the students."
A guru awakens dormant spiritual knowledge in a student, the act of which is known as shaktipat.
By enabling users to actively contribute such explicit data, Amazon.com succeeded in leveraging knowledge dormant in its large customer base to help customers with their purchasing decisions.
What lies dormant is the princess' knowledge of her identity.
To think of science without including an historical and cultural analysis would be like thinking of the literary text without the surrounding and embedding weave of discursive knowledges active or dormant at particular moments.
Genuine geniuses look lazy by comparison, because the knowledge doesn't just lie dormant in their mind, they've had to work hard to achieve it.
However, your dormant ties will likely have unique connections and knowledge compared to your current network.
Particularly reassuring was the knowledge that the virus could lie dormant for a long time so exposure was not necessarily recent and did not mean that a partner had been unfaithful.
This approach conveniently negates any need to determine whether seeds are primary or secondary dormant, measure dormancy thresholds, population parameters, or have any knowledge about the agents causing dormancy.
Decades of restrictions on access to nomadic territories meant there were no encounters with the learning environments in which camel and desert-related knowledge was transmitted, and knowledge acquisition and transmission became dormant (Volpato and Puri [2014]).
