stagnancy

1. 1.

   inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation

   Synonymsstagnation

   Broaderinaction
2. 2.

   a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

   “economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation”

   Synonymsstagnationdoldrums

   Broaderinaction

   commercial enterprise · art

Other forms of stagnancy

plural

stagnancies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stagnancy

What does stagnancy mean?

stagnancy means "inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stagnancy?

stagnancy has 3 syllables: stag-nan-cy. The stress falls on "stag".

What is another word for stagnancy?

Close synonyms include stagnation, stagnation, doldrums. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stagnancy a common word?

stagnancy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.