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Stability vs Stagnant - What's the difference?

stability | stagnant |

As a noun stability

is the condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.

As an adjective stagnant is

lacking freshness, motion, flow, progress, or change; stale; motionless; still.

stability

English

Noun

  • The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change
  • The tendency to recover from perturbations

    • stagnant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking freshness, motion, flow, progress, or change; stale; motionless; still.

    • Related terms

    * stagnate * stagflation

    Derived terms

    * stagnantly * stagnancy