English Explanatory Dictionary

stagnation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of being stagnant; (countable) an instance of this.
  2. The state of lacking flow or motion, usually causing a lack of freshness or health; (countable) an instance of this.
  3. The state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; inactivity, staleness; (countable) an instance of this.
  4. The state of low or no growth in an economy; (countable) an instance of this.

Pronunciation

/stæɡˈneɪʃn̩/ /stæɡˈneɪʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-stagnation.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-stagnation.wav /stæɡˈnæɪʃən/ /stɛɡˈnæɪʃən/

Word forms

stagnation stagnations

Etymology

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).

Synonyms

restagnation stagnance stagnancy

Related words

restagnant restagnate restagnating restagnation stagnance stagnancy stagnant stagnate stagnative stagnatory stagnature unstagnating

Derived words

semistagnation stagflation stagnational stagnationist stagnation point

Translations

Albanian: amti Albanian: kënétë Arabic: رُكُود Armenian: ստագնացիա Armenian: լճացում Azerbaijani: durğunluq Bulgarian: стагнация Bulgarian: бездействие Catalan: estancació Catalan: estancament Chinese Cantonese: 停滯 /停滞 Chinese: 停滯 /停滞 Chinese Mandarin: 停滯 /停滞 Chinese Mandarin: 停滯性 /停滞性 Czech: ustrnutí Dutch: stagnatie Finnish: pysähtyminen Finnish: pysähtyneisyys Finnish: seisahtuneisuus Finnish: stagnaatio Finnish: jähmettyminen Finnish: lamaantuminen Finnish: lamaantuneisuus Finnish: lamaannus Finnish: lamaannustila Finnish: ruususenuni French: stagnation Georgian: უმოქმედობა Georgian: უძრაობა German: Stagnation German: Stagnierung Greek: απονέκρωση Greek: αποτελμάτωση Hebrew: סטגנציה Hebrew: קיפאון Italian: stagnazione Japanese: 沈滞 Japanese: 不活発 Japanese: 不振 Japanese: 渋滞 Japanese: 低迷 Japanese: 停滞 Japanese: 滞り Kazakh: тоқырау Korean: 안주 Korean: 침체 Korean: 정체 Macedonian: стагнација Macedonian: застој Malayalam: സ്തംഭനാവസ്ഥ Māori: houtetetanga Māori: patekotanga Māori: whakamāraritanga Norwegian Bokmål: stagnasjon Norwegian Nynorsk: stagnasjon Polish: stagnacja Polish: bezrybie Polish: marazm Polish: martwica Polish: zastój Portuguese: estagnação Portuguese: marasmo Portuguese: mesmice Portuguese: paralisia Romanian: stagnare Russian: стагна́ция Russian: засто́й Spanish: estancamiento Swedish: stagnation Turkish: kış uykusu Ottoman Turkish: كساد Ukrainian: стагна́ція Ukrainian: засті́й Uzbek: turgʻunlik Vietnamese: đình đốn Vietnamese: đình trệ
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