Stagnation
[stæɡ'neɪʃən] or [stæg'neʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc); 'economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation'.
(noun.) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation.
Edited by Davy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The cessation of action, or of brisk action; the state of being dull; as, the stagnation of business.
Checker: Susie
Examples
- Winter seemed conquering her spring; the mind's soil and its treasures were freezing gradually to barren stagnation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Adventure is to stagnation what champagne is to flat porter. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This was not the repose of actual stagnation, but the apparent repose of incredible slowness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Here is a stagnation that is repugnant. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But was it happy in its stagnation? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One point was evident in this; that she had been existing in a suppressed state, and not in one of languor, or stagnation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- School solitude, conventual silence and stagnation, anything seemed preferable to living embroiled with Dr. John. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typist: Sadie