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All stagnation synonyms

stag·na·tion
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noun stagnation

  • quiescence — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
  • hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
  • bottom out — If a trend such as a fall in prices bottoms out, it stops getting worse or decreasing, and remains at a particular level or amount.
  • in-difference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
  • hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
  • depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
  • joblessness — without a job.
  • downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
  • blahs — nonsense; rubbish: What they say is blah.
  • deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
  • hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • deceleration — to decrease the velocity of: He decelerates the bobsled when he nears a curve.
  • inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
  • drop-off — a vertical or very steep descent: The trail has a drop-off of several hundred feet.
  • inertness — having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active): inert matter.
  • dormancy — the state of being dormant.
  • falloff — a decline in quantity, vigor, etc.
  • doldrums — A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks – so called by sailors.
  • acedia — spiritual sloth or apathy
  • inaction — absence of action; idleness.
  • deliquescence — the process of deliquescing
  • inactivity — not active: an inactive volcano.
  • otiosity — being at leisure; idle; indolent.
  • fecklessness — The state of being feckless.
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