stasis

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsteɪsɪs/

Noun

stasis (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
2. Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

   His company was sized for growth, not stasis.

3. (scifi) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
4. One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.

Synonyms

• (inactivity) stability, staticity

Antonyms

• (inactivity) movement, flux

Related terms

• static

Translations

• Russian: стаз
• Spanish: estasis

Translations

• Italian: stasi
• Russian: засто́й

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