stagnation

The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this.

Factors known to encourage the growth of harmful bacteria inside cooling systems include the stagnation of the water.

[S]ometimes at the Bottom of the Deep vvaters there ſeem'd to be a ſtagnation of the Sea for a great depth, ſo that till ſuch a height they [divers] could riſe directly upvvards, but that at other heights they vvould be carried avvay by the leſſe deep-vvaters; ſo as to be found vvhen they came to emerge a great vvay off from that point of the ſurface vvhich vvas perpendicular to that place at the Bottom, vvhence they began to aſcend.

The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this.

The general concern about industrial stagnation inspired an overhaul of the patent system.

I am now in the sixty-fifth year of my age, and having been the greater part of my days a man of pleasure, the decay of my faculties is a stagnation of my life.

The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this.

[T]he Credit Cycle, though guilty of disastrous excesses and grave crimes, has a part to play in a progressive society, and […] an attempt to check it altogether might produce stagnation as well as stability.