Stasis

//ˈsteɪsɪs// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces wordnet
  3. 3
    Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness. figuratively, uncountable, usually

    "His company was sized for growth, not stasis."

  4. 4
    an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped wordnet
  5. 5
    A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change. uncountable, usually

    "I was in stasis for forty years before I woke up orbiting this poxy planet!"

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  1. 6
    One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter. uncountable, usually

Synonyms

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stabilitya wise passivenessabeyanceabidingnessapathybalance

Example

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"Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution."

Etymology

From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.

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