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Stagnancy

Definition: Stagnancy

Stagnancy

Noun

1. Inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation.

2. A state of inactivity (in business or art etc); "economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stagnancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)


Synonyms: Stagnancy

Synonyms: doldrums (n), stagnation (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Stagnancy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Quiescence

Noun: rest; stillness; Adjective: quiescence; stagnation, stagnancy; fixity, immobility, catalepsy; indisturbance; quietism.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Stagnancy

Language Translations for "stagnancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ngecje ekonomike (stagnation), gjendje amullie (stagnation), amulli (inertia, quiescence, quiescency, slack, stagnation). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏جمود (deadlock, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertness, motionlessness, solid state, solidity, stagnation), ‏آسن (putrefactive, putrid, stagnant, stagnation), ‏ركود (doldrums, down, lull, paralysis, recession, slackness, slump, stagnation). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неподвижност (accidie, acedia, fixedness, fixity, immobility, immovability, quiescence, quiescency, rigidity, torpor), застоялост (stagnation), бездействие (idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertness, quiescence, quiescency, stagnation, vacancy), инертност (heaviness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, inertness, lethargy, quiescence, quiescency, stagnation). (various references)

   

Czech

  

stojatost. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

رکود (Inaction, Inactivity, Slump), بی حرکتی (Inaction). (various references)

   

French

  

stagnation (stagnation), croupissement (stagnation). (various references)

   

German

  

Stagnation (stagnation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στασιμότησ (inactivity, stagnation), στασιμότητα (inactivity, stagnation). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pangás (depression, doldrums, dullness, slack, slack time, slump, stagnation, stasis), tespedés (backwater, sloth, stagnation), stagnálás (backwater, stagnation), állás (berth, chair, duty, job, niche, occupation, place, placement, pos, position, post, stagnation, stall, stance, stand, station). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agnancystay

   

Portuguese

  

estagnação (stagnation). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

застой (sluggishness, stagnation, standstill, stasis). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zastoj (deadlock, halt, hitch, hold up, malfunction, misfire, pause, slowdown, stagnation, stand, standstill, stasis, stoppage, tie up), zaostalost (backwardness, backwater, retardation, retardment), mrtvilo (deadness, impasse, lethargy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estancamiento (blockage, stagnation, stalemate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tembellik (dalliance, dilatoriness, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, slackness, sloth, sluggishness, stagnation, vacancy), miskinlik (laziness, slackness, sloth), kesatlık (flatness, slackness, stagnation, tie up, tightness), hareketsizlik (immobility, inaction, inactivity, inertia, inertness, quiet, quietness, quietude, rest, stagnation, still, stillness), durgunluk (backwater, calm, calmness, deadlock, deadness, inaction, inactivity, inanimation, inertness, languor, placidity, recession, recessional, serenity, slack, slackness, slump, stagnation, stillness). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

інертність (inertia, passivism), застій (back water, depression, stagnation, stasis). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự ứ đọng (stagnation), sự đình đốn tình trạng mụ mẫm (stagnation), tình trạng tù hãm sự đình trệ (stagnation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Stagnancy

Misspellings

"Stagnancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stagnany, stannary. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Stagnancy"

Words rhyming with "stagnancy" (pronounced 'Stag"nan*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Stagnancy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-n-n-s-t-y"

-3 letters: cannas, nancys, sancta, satang, scanty.

-4 letters: angas, angst, annas, antas, antsy, canna, canny, canst, cants, canty, cyans, gnats, naans, nanas, nancy, nasty, sanga, satay, scant, stagy, stang, tangs, tangy, tansy, yangs.

-5 letters: acta, acts, agas, anas, anga, anna, ansa, anta, ants, cagy, cans, cant, casa, cast, cats, cays, cyan, cyst, gast, gats, gays.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-n-n-s-t-y"
 

+4 letters: fascinatingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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