different between slackening vs stasis

English

Verb

slackening

1. present participle of slacken

Noun

slackening (plural slackenings)

1. The act by which something slackens; loss of speed, tautness, etc.
   • 1861, United States. War Dept, U.S. Infantry Tactics (page 124)

     If the following guide lose his distance from the one leading (which can only happen by his own fault), he will correct himself by slightly lengthening or shortening a few steps, in order that there may not be sudden quickenings or slackenings in the march of his platoon.

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ?????? (stásis). See stead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ste?s?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s?s

Noun

stasis (usually uncountable, plural stases)

1. (pathology) 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.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 194]:

     Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.

3. (science fiction) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
4. One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.

Synonyms

• (inactivity): stability, staticity

Antonyms

• (inactivity): movement, flux

Hyponyms

• (inactivity): equilibrium

Related terms

• static

Translations

Anagrams

• assist, sistas