stasis

noun

Etymology: From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.

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.