What is another word for stagnancy?

Pronunciation: [stˈaɡnənsi] (IPA)

Stagnancy refers to a state of stillness or lack of movement. Synonyms for it include inertia, standstill, idleness, inactivity, passivity, torpidity, dormantness, doldrums, lethargy, stagnation, and sluggishness. These words all depict a sense of resistance, sluggishness, or lethargy, suggesting that some activity or motion has come to a halt. While stagnancy can refer to any form of immobility, it is often used in a negative connotation to describe a lack of growth or progress in a particular situation or field. Its synonyms can help to convey the same sentiment in different ways, making for more impactful and nuanced writing.

What are the hypernyms for Stagnancy?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Stagnancy?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Stagnancy

As he was feeling depressed looking at this basement room where they were caged and smelling the stagnancy of air stinking of mens' bodies more eclectically than just their armpits, he fought with the rectangular window to which leaned weeds and grass.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
A low, drizzling rain, and labouring yet settled clouds, which denied all glimpse of the sky, and seemed cursed into stagnancy by the absence of all wind or even breeze, increased by those associations we endeavour in vain to resist, the dark and oppressive sadness of his thoughts.
"Godolphin, Volume 2."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He had never measured the difference between this and that; between those days troubled by a hundred annoyances, vexations, cares, when in spite of all he had lived, and these days of sullen stagnancy and mere vegetation.
"Chippinge Borough"
Stanley J. Weyman

Famous quotes with Stagnancy

  • Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.
    Kathy Acker

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