Definition for Stagnation:

• Act of stagnating: state of being stagnant or motionless: dullness.

Synonyms for Stagnation:

• n.

  •
  • failure,
  • sidestep.
  •depression (noun)
  • hard time,
  • paralysis,
  • big trouble,
  • hard times,
  • over-production,
  • bottom out,
  • panic,
  • retrenchment,
  • overproduction,
  • unemployment,
  • retrenchments,
  • Paralyses,
  • stagflation,
  • doldrums,
  • deflations,
  • deflation.
  •doldrums (noun)
  • dismals,
  • blahs,
  • black mood.
  •recession (noun)
  • bottom-out,
  • shakeout,
  • shakeouts.
  •slowdown (noun)
  • falloff,
  • slow up,
  • slowup,
  • downtrend,
  • slow-up,
  • deceleration,
  • retardation,
  • decelerations,
  • drop-off,
  • slackening.
  •slump (noun)
  • de scents,
  • fallingoff,
  • de-scents,
  • re-verse,
  • de scent,
  • de-scent,
  • bad periods,
  • falling offs,
  • falling-offs,
  • the skid,
  • fallingoffs,
  • re verse.
  •stagnancy (noun)
  • stagnancy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • evasion,
  • avoidance,
  • stop-go,
  • latent,
  • inoperativeness,
  • stasis,
  • stunted,
  • inertness,
  • latency,
  • stagnant,
  • footdragging,
  • dormant,
  • inactivity.
  •
  • delay,
  • quiescent,
  • suspended animation,
  • underdeveloped,
  • inertia.
  •
  • backward.
  •emergence
  • emanation.

Paraphrases for Stagnation:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    recession.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Stagnating, recession.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    inaction.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    stand-off, decline, cessation.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    depression.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    stalemate, standstill, impasse, sluggishness, deadlock, stasis, slowdown, stalling, standoff, gridlock, inertia, paralysis, immobility, stillness, downturn, stall, morass, logjam, apathy, rut, depression, doldrums.

Antonyms for Stagnation:

• n.

  • inactivity
    boom, rise.

Stagnation Sentence Examples:

• Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.

• For some time there had been complete stagnation in all financial matters; the credit of the King had step by step diminished, private fortune had become more and more uncertain.