stasis

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.

   His company was sized for growth, not stasis.

2. 2
   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!

From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.

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