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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being stagnant or without motion, flow, or circulation, as a fluid; stagnation.
  • noun Pl. stagnancies (-siz). Anything stagnant, a stagnant pool.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun State of being stagnant.

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  • noun The property of being stagnant.

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  • noun inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation
  • noun a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

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Examples

  • Why do they fight for "security" - I call it stagnancy - instead of better performance under better conditions?

    Olympia Wrap Up, Pt. 1 « PubliCola 2010

  • Thank God, Muhammadiyah does not experience this kind of stagnancy very seriously.

    The Jakarta Post Breaking News 2009

  • As a society, we are stagnant in so many ways, and in no realm is the stagnancy more acute than that of crime, punishment and victimhood.

    Robert Koehler: The Healing Walls Robert Koehler 2011

  • The rocking seats are designed to encourage shifting of posture and position in order to alleviate the stress and adverse health effects on the body caused by stagnancy in seating.

    Bean Rockers from Knoend Win 2009 iF Product Design Award 2009

  • As a society, we are stagnant in so many ways, and in no realm is the stagnancy more acute than that of crime, punishment and victimhood.

    Robert Koehler: The Healing Walls Robert Koehler 2011

  • It seemed, then, that the stagnancy of the summer was lifting.

    Diversion Meg Wolitzer 2011

  • It sounded so promising – the setup from a humanist writer professing his boredom with the stagnancy of debate, a panel of distinguished thinkers charged with leading the way forward, and a full house of engaged attendees, palpably waiting for the emergence of a new agenda that could save us from more rounds of knockabout "is-there-or-isn't there" pantomime.

    Reframing the New Atheism debate Ed Halliwell 2010

  • Among the sharp gainers, the Singapore dollar broke from its recent stagnancy to pop to a record against the U.S. currency, the Australian dollar again notched its highest level since being floated in 1983 and the South Korean won hit a two-and-a-half-year high.

    Asian Central Banks Intervene as Currencies Rise P.R. Venkat 2011

  • Anti-dowry and domestic violence laws remain poorly implemented and legislation has been affected by the political stagnancy.

    Nepal's women have a voice in politics but no one is listening 2011

  • My brain had become so alert and eager, so quickened by the wonder of the new world the books had discovered to it, that it now suffered all the misery of stagnancy and inaction.

    THE BRAIN MERCHANT 2010

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