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stasis
/ˈsteɪsɪs/
noun 4
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4ADJ.
becoming
VERB + STASIS
combine, command, growth
STASIS + NOUN
anguish, science
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
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
Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.
3
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
One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
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His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
Wiktionary02
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.
Wiktionary03
Or will Americans remain hunkered forever—as confused and anxious and paralyzed as we were before 2020—descend into digital feudalism, and retreat back into our cocoons of nostalgia and cultural stasi
Wiktionary04
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
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