Stagnation means regression.
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Stagnation
/stæɡˈneɪʃn̩/
Synonyms for "stagnation" (105 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (21)
Noun(12 words)
Adjective(4 words)
chronic stasisclinical stasesclinical stasisconceptual stagnation
Strong matches (32)
Adjective(6 words)
economic stasiseconomic stasis periodintellectual stagnationlinguistic stagnationmarked immobilitymotionless state
Noun(12 words)
flounderingfossilization processhelplessnessimmobilityinactioninertiainertiaslack of flowlanguishinglanguorsmore immobilemugginess
Verb(1 words)
ground to a halt
Preposition(1 words)
in stasis
Related words (52)
Noun(28 words)
no energy growthnonmoving statenumbingossificationparalysisperiod of stasispersistent cultural stagnationplateauplateauingplateausplateauxpolicy stalemateprocess stagnationrecessionrustingrutsshiftlessnessslumberslumpstandstill
Determiner(2 words)
no motion changeno progress
Verb(2 words)
Adjective(2 words)
professional stagnationsocial stagnation
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: stagnancy, abeyance, apathy, backwardness, balance.
- Sentence evidence is available for stagnation, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from wordnet, opengloss, derived_reverse.
Synonym selection checklist
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When not to replace "stagnation"
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Replacement workflow
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Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
9 entriesconditioneconomic conditioninactioninactivenessinactivitymacroeconomic conceptphenomenonprocessstate
More specific
10 entriesair stagnationblood stagnationcreative stagnationeconomic stagnationeducational stagnationlong recessionslow growthstagnant flowstagnation pointwater stagnation
Collocations
6 entriesair stagnationeconomic stagnationgrowth stagnationperiod of stagnationstagnation pointwater stagnation
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
6 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 37 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- amti noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- kënétë noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Arabic
1 entries- رُكُود noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Armenian
2 entries- լճացում noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- ստագնացիա noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- durğunluq noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Bulgarian
2 entries- бездействие noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- стагнация noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Catalan
2 entries- estancació noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- estancament noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Chinese
1 entries- 停滯 /停滞 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 停滯 /停滞 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 停滯 /停滞 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- 停滯性 /停滞性 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Czech
1 entries- ustrnutí noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Dutch
1 entries- stagnatie noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Finnish
4 entries- jähmettyminen noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- lamaannus noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- lamaannustila noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- lamaantuminen noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
French
1 entries- stagnation noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Georgian
2 entries- უმოქმედობა noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- უძრაობა noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
German
2 entries- Stagnation noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- Stagnierung noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Greek
2 entries- απονέκρωση noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- αποτελμάτωση noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Hebrew
2 entries- סטגנציה noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- קיפאון noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Italian
1 entries- stagnazione noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Japanese
4 entries- 不振 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- 不活発 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- 低迷 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- 停滞 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Kazakh
1 entries- тоқырау noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Korean
3 entries- 안주 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- 정체 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- 침체 noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Macedonian
2 entries- застој noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- стагнација noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Malayalam
1 entries- സ്തംഭനാവസ്ഥ noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Māori
3 entries- houtetetanga noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- patekotanga noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- whakamāraritanga noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- stagnasjon noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- stagnasjon noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كساد noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Polish
4 entries- bezrybie noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- marazm noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- martwica noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- stagnacja noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Portuguese
4 entries- estagnação noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- marasmo noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- mesmice noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- paralisia noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Romanian
1 entries- stagnare noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Russian
2 entries- засто́й noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- стагна́ция noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Spanish
1 entries- estancamiento noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Swedish
1 entries- stagnation noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Turkish
1 entries- kış uykusu noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Ukrainian
2 entries- засті́й noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- стагна́ція noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Uzbek
1 entries- turgʻunlik noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Vietnamese
2 entries- đình trệ noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
- đình đốn noun (state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; an instance of this — see also inactivity)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
Don't fear slow progress, only stagnation.
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"My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere."
Source: tatoeba (6373678)
Is the Algerian economy doomed to stagnation?
Source: tatoeba (8197413)
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Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "stagnation"?
Closest matches include stagnancy, abeyance, apathy, backwardness, balance.
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