Result of standing too long, maybe

Usage examples of stagnation.

Sometime during this last pluvial there disappeared from Africa the last manlike rivals of man as we know him -- Neanderthal Man, Rhodesian Man, and others caught in evolutionary stagnation.

On the whole, Nyerere succeeded in averting the rise of a middle class, though the consequence of repressing economic activity was not shared progress, but shared stagnation.

They settled down and enjoyed a very plentiful, if rude, existence on the products of their land, game, and fish, amid a fine climate--with mosquitoes enough in summer to act as a counterirritant and prevent stagnation from too much ease and prosperity.

Under conditions of physical stagnation, when the circulation is less active, much of this waste matter tends to remain in the tissues of the body, accumulating and interfering with cell activity and normal functioning in general.

Duty confined him to ghostdom, and solitude condemned him to stagnation.

Given the stagnation of the Empire the military middle class must have decayed in any case, but the spread of a shallow Leftism hastened the process.

It would create a wholly new set of economic conditions in the country that would eliminate the worst aspects of the economic stagnation gripping the Arab world--and might create a vibrant Iraqi economy that could serve as a regional engine for development.

But Comus had lived too thoroughly in the centre of things to regard life in a backwater as anything else than stagnation, and stagnation while one is young he justly regarded as an offence against nature and reason, in keeping with the perverted mockery that sends decrepit invalids touring painfully about the world and shuts panthers up in narrow cages.

Carbon-based but nonhuman, it had attained a demigodhood on planets throughout the galaxies, a state that eventually led to boredom and stagnation that the race, in its greatness, recognized.

Here, the culture line was not a single stream, but a myriad of rivulets spread over the wide boundary between stagnation and chaos.

This time, by all the gods who never belonged here, this world is not going to sink back into ignorance and stagnation when the off worlders go!

For a time Assyria expanded, but eventually it fell into stagnation and merely defended itself against the nomads from the south, the Arameans.

But the general weakening of imperialism, and to some extent of the whole British morale, that took place during the nineteen-thirties, was partly the work of the left-wing intelligentsia, itself a kind of growth that had sprouted from the stagnation of the Empire.

On top of everything, only two weeks to go until birthday, when will have to face up to the fact that another entire year has gone by, during which everyone else except me has mutated into Smug Married, having children plop, plop, plop, left right and centre and making hundreds of thousands of pounds and inroads into very hub of establishment, while I career rudderless and, boyfriendless through dysfunctional relationships and professional stagnation.

Think of all the craftsmen whom the stagnation of manufactures, the augmentation of octrois, the rigor of winter, and the dearness of bread have reduced to extreme distress.