'Stasis' definitions:
Definition of 'stasis'
(from WordNet)
noun
An abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
noun
Inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces
Definition of 'Stasis'
From: GCIDE
- Stasis \Sta"sis\ (st[=a]"s[i^]s or st[a^]s"[i^]s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. sta`sis a standing still.] (Physiol.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stasis'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a wise passiveness,
- abeyance,
- abidingness,
- apathy,
- catalepsy,
- catatonia,
- changelessness,
- constancy,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- deadliness,
- deathliness,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dormancy,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duration,
- endurance,
- entropy,
- equilibrium,
- equipoise,
- firmness,
- fixedness,
- frozenness,
- hardening,
- idleness,
- immobility,
- immovability,
- immovableness,
- immutability,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- indifference,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- invariability,
- invariableness,
- inveteracy,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- languor,
- lastingness,
- latency,
- long standing,
- lotus-eating,
- meditation,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- permanence,
- permanency,
- perpetualness,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- poise,
- policy,
- procrastination,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- rigidity,
- solidity,
- stability,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- standing,
- standpattism,
- steadfastness,
- suspense,
- torpor,
- unchangeability,
- unchangingness,
- vegetation,
- vis inertiae,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting