stasis
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stasis
- /ˈsteɪsɪs/ UK
- /ˈstæ-/ UK
- /ˈsteɪsɪs/ US
Rhymes with -eɪsɪs
Where it comes from
From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.
noun stases
- 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.
- Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness. His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
- A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change. I was in stasis for forty years before I woke up orbiting this poxy planet!
- One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: paralysis, logjam, impasse, stagnation, standstill, gridlock, deadlock, stalemate, stagnating, inertia, inactivity, immobility, stillness, quietude, quiescence, torpor
Translations
Every language
noun pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid
| Español | estasis |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Blutstau |
| Русский | стаз staz |
noun inactivity
| 中文 | 停滯 /停滞 tíngzhì |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Stillstand, Statik, Stau |
| Italiano | stasi |
| Русский | засто́й zastój, состоя́ние n покоя sostojánije |
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