1
: a slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid or semifluid: such as
a
: slowing of the current of circulating blood
b
: reduced motility of the intestines with retention of feces
2
a
: a state of static balance or equilibrium : stagnation
b
: a state or period of stability during which little or no evolutionary change in a lineage occurs
plural -stases
1
: stoppage : slowing
hemostasis
bacteriostasis
2
: stable state
homeostasis
Examples of stasis in a Sentence
Noun
The country is in economic stasis.
His art was characterized by bursts of creativity followed by long periods of stasis.
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Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
When women remain so vastly underrepresented – holding just 28% of all congressional seats, stasis elections like this one postpone the progress necessary to achieve gender parity in political officeholding.
—Kelly Dittmar, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
In this near-future scenario, censorship is the norm; the privileged sleep in stasis pods.
—Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 7 Oct. 2024
This web of interrelated characters remains in stasis, as an unremarkable fixture of the backdrop, rather than a point of intrigue.
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Noun
Despite the subtropical trappings, his stasis has a fundamental ordinariness, and that turns his trouble in paradise into a more universal call to stop sleepwalking through life.
—Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
When women remain so vastly underrepresented – holding just 28% of all congressional seats, stasis elections like this one postpone the progress necessary to achieve gender parity in political officeholding.
—Kelly Dittmar, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
In this near-future scenario, censorship is the norm; the privileged sleep in stasis pods.
—Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 7 Oct. 2024
This web of interrelated characters remains in stasis, as an unremarkable fixture of the backdrop, rather than a point of intrigue.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Stasis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stasis. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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