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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪsɪs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsɪs

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.

   • 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.

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.

• (inactivity): stability, staticity

• (inactivity): movement, flux

• (inactivity): equilibrium

• static

• assist, sistas