stasis
A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s…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.
» Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
Meaning
4 senses(uncountable, usually)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.
Blutstau
стазstaz
стазstaz
(figuratively, uncountable, usually)Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
Stillstand, Statik, Stau
засто́йzastój, состоя́ние n покояsostojánije
засті́йzastíj
(uncountable, usually)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!
(uncountable, usually)One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
- inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces
- an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
Examples
1 sentencesOur Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
Translations
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Origin
From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.
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Forms
plural: stases| Singular | stasis |
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uncountable
Synonyms
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2 antonymsWord family
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