stagnation.
The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this.
Meaning & usage
The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this. The state of lacking flow or motion, usually causing a lack of freshness or health; (countable) an instance of this.
Factors known to encourage the growth of harmful bacteria inside cooling systems include the stagnation of the water.
The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this. The state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; inactivity, staleness; (countable) an instance of this.
The general concern about industrial stagnation inspired an overhaul of the patent system.
The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this. The state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; inactivity, staleness; (countable) an instance of this. The state of low or no growth in an economy; (countable) an instance of this.
Where this word comes from
From stagnate + -ation (suffix denoting an action or process, or its result), Stagnate is derived from stagnāt-, the participial stem of Latin stagnāre, the present active infinitive of stāgnō (“of waters: to cover the land as a lake, to become a pool, to stagnate”), from stāgnum (“body of standing water (lake, swamp, etc.)”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g- (“to drip; to seep”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
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