stasis

About 1.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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. noun Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

   His company was sized for growth, not stasis.

3. noun 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!

4. noun One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.

Similar words

paralysis logjam impasse stagnation standstill gridlock deadlock stalemate stagnating inertia

Often followed by

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Word family

stases