stasis
n.n. a state where nothing changes or moves. It is often used to describe a situation that is stuck and needs to be fixed.
n. a state of inactivity or equilibrium in which no significant change occurs. Often used in scientific contexts to describe the preservation of organisms in a fossilized state or in social contexts to describe a lack of progress.
The company is in a state of stasis and needs new ideas.
The committee's decision to delay the vote kept the project in a state of legal stasis for over a year.
The discovery of the fossilized remains suggested that the creature had been trapped in a state of perfect stasis for millions of years, preserving its cellular structure against the decay of time.
From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.