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stagnation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun stagnation has 2 senses
- stagnation(n = noun.state) doldrums, stagnancy - a state of inactivity (in business or art etc); "economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation" is a kind of inaction, inactiveness, inactivity
- stagnation(n = noun.state) stagnancy - inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation; Array is a kind of inaction, inactiveness, inactivity
Derived forms verb stagnate4, verb stagnate2, verb stagnate1
Derived forms verb stagnate3, verb stagnate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
stagnation, n. [Cf. F. stagnation.].
- The condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation of vapors. [1913 Webster]
- The cessation of action, or of brisk action; the state of being dull; as, the stagnation of business. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
stagnation
Quiescence
N quiescence, rest, stillness, quiescence, stagnation, stagnancy, fixity, immobility, catalepsy, indisturbance, quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm, repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep, pause, lull, stand still, standing still, lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix, embargo, resting place, gite, bivouac, home, pillow, haven, goal, quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed, stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still, sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home, becalmed, stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled, calm, restful, cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death, vegetative, vegetating, at a stand, tout court, at the halt, Int, stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!, requiescat in pace, Deus nobis haec otia fecit, the noonday quiet holds the hill.
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