Stasis

Quick meaning: Stasis is a noun meaning (figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

Meaning

(figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

His company was sized for growth, not stasis.

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

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.

Or will Americans remain hunkered forever—as confused and anxious and paralyzed as we were before 2020—descend into digital feudalism, and retreat back into our cocoons of nostalgia and cultural stasis, providing the illusion that nothing much is changing or ever can change?

Word Forms

• stases

Synonyms for stasis

Depending on context, synonyms include stability, staticity.

Antonyms for stasis

Common opposites include movement, flux.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paralysis, logjam, impasse, stagnation, standstill, gridlock.

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