stasis en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (General-American) audio
- /ˈsteɪsɪs/ (General-American)
- /ˈsteɪsɪs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈstæ-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.
Meanings
- (uncountable, usually) 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.
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(figuratively, uncountable, usually) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.
1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194:His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
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?
2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:
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(uncountable, usually) 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!
- (uncountable, usually) One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stases | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
hemostasis · glucostasis · orthostasis · enterostasis · metallostasis · mesostasis · ciliostasis · photostasis · stasis papillomatosis · bacteriostasis · cryostasis · stasimorphy · morphostasis · cytostasis · bilirubinostasis · angiostasis · chemostasis · venous stasis · adipostasis · stasis lock · mucostasis · biostasis · oostasis · leukostasis
Hyponyms
equilibrium (inactivity)
Relateds
Synonyms
Translations (30)
hu pangás (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · fi pysähtyneisyys (inactivity) · bg засто́й (inactivity) · az durğunluq (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · de Stau (inactivity) · pl zastój (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · es estasis (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · nl stabiliteit (inactivity) · mi whakamāraritanga (inactivity) · cmn 停滯 /停滞 (inactivity) · ml സ്തംഭനം (inactivity) · de Stillstand (inactivity) · hu mozdulatlanság (inactivity) · bg стазис (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · de Statik (inactivity) · sv stas (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · uk засті́й (inactivity) · fi pysäytin (scifi: technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time) · lv stāze (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · hu pangás (inactivity) · it stasi (inactivity) · de Blutstau (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · mi patekotanga (inactivity) · ru состоя́ние n покоя (inactivity) · ru стаз (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · uk стаз (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · fi staasi (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid) · ru засто́й (inactivity) · nl stase (inactivity) · ca estasi (pathology: slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid)