stases

Noun

stasis (usually uncountable, plural stases)

1. (usually) A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
2. (figuratively, usually) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
   • His company was sized for growth, not stasis.

   Synonyms:

   stability, staticity

   Antonyms:

   movement, flux

3. (usually) 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!
4. (usually) One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.