Synonyms of stasis

stasis

noun

ˈstā-səs 

as in equilibrium

a condition in which opposing forces are equal to one another

for the time being, the populations of the national park's predators and prey remain in stasis

Synonyms & Similar Words

• equilibrium
• equilibration
• balance
• poise
• equipoise
• counterpoise
• stability
• steadiness
• counterbalance
• offset
• security
• firmness
• fixedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• imbalance
• disequilibrium
• unbalance
• nonequilibrium
• instability
• fluctuation
• volatility
• insecurity
• mutability
• precariousness
• unsteadiness
• changeability
• inconstancy
• disequilibration
• shakiness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stasis

Grief opens the way to a reckoning with place, stasis and deferred desire. —Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026

This second season is once again poking at inertia and stasis and how romantic relationships can crumble into a series of self-destructive choices. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026

And Ben Ahlers, who plays the adult Happy, comes with that actor’s famously warm smile and chirpy demeanor, slowly worn down here before your eyes, as the permissible frolics of youth turn into the stasis of one going nowhere. —Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026

The repetition doesn’t conjure stasis so much as the struggle to find a way forward. —Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026