stasis
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See stead.
Pronunciation
Noun
stasis (usually uncountable, plural stases)
- (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.
- Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
- His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 194]:
- Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.
- (science fiction) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
- One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
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Hyponyms
- (inactivity): equilibrium
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Translations
pathology: slackening of blood current
inactivity
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scifi: technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time
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one of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter
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