stasis

See also: Stasis and -stasis

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] , from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See stead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪsɪs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪs

Noun

stasis (usually uncountable, plural stases)

1. (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.
2. Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

   His company was sized for growth, not stasis.

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

Synonyms

• (inactivity): stability, staticity

Antonyms

• (inactivity): movement, flux

Hyponyms

• (inactivity): equilibrium

Related terms

• static

Translations

pathology: slackening of blood current

• Catalan: estasi f
• Latvian: stāze f
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• Russian: стаз (ru) m (staz)
• Spanish: estasis f

inactivity

• Dutch: stase (nl) f, stabiliteit (nl) f
• Italian: stasi (it)
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• Maori: patekotanga
• Russian: засто́й (ru) m (zastój), состоя́ние (ru) n (sostojánije) покоя (ru) m (pokoja)

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