Stasis is a state in which nothing moves or changes. Political stasis, in stasis, break the stasis.
In medicine it is literal and dangerous: venous stasis is blood pooling instead of flowing. In politics and in science fiction it is a settled figure, where a system in stasis is one nothing can shift.
1nounstasisA state in which nothing moves or changes.
“The economy has been in stasis for years, neither growing nor shrinking.”
stasis is a state.
Greek stasis means a standing still, from histanai, to stand.
Proto-Indo-European
*steh₂-
Ancient Greek
στάσις
New Latin
stasis
English, today
stasis
From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις. See the doublet a doublet of stead.
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