stasis
- n an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
- n inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces
- If anything, the book can be criticized for a kind of thematic stasis.
- Inflated ticket prices, risk-averse studios and disproportionately few movie theaters have helped insure that cinematic stasis.
- Lahiri's stories are static, but what looks like stasis is really the stillness of enormous forces pushing in opposite directions, barely keeping one another in check.