沈滞

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ちん
Grade: S
たい
Grade: S
on’yomi

Noun

沈滞 (hiragana ちんたい, rōmaji chintai)

  1. stagnation
  2. inactivity, a standstill

Verb

沈滞する (hiragana ちんたいする, rōmaji chintai suru)

  1. stagnate
    • 1917, 和辻哲郎, 創作の心理について:
       (したが)って (かれ)らの表現欲 (ひょうげんよく)内生 (ないせい)沈滞 (ちんたい)し、 (へい) (ぼん)をきわめているに (くら)べて、 (こっ) (けい)なほど不釣合 (ふつりあい) (はげ)しい。
      Shitagatte karera no hyōgen'yoku wa naisei ga chintai shi, heibon o kiwamete iru ni kurabete, kokkei na hodo futsuriai ni hageshī.
      As their desire for self-expression stagnated, their exaggeration of the commonplace reached comical extremes.
  2. be inactive, be at a standstill
    • 1933, 萩原朔太郎, 郷愁の詩人 与謝蕪村:
      その (すし)は、 () (かん)沈滞 (ちんたい)する (そこ) (ほう)で、 (しず)かに、 (つめ)たく、 (えい) (えん) (めい) (そう) (ふけ)っているのである。
      Sono sushi wa, jikan no chintai suru soko no hō de, shizuka ni, tsumetaku, eien no meisō ni fukette iru no de aru.
      The sushi seemed put time into a standstill and one became lost in a quiet, cool, eternal meditation.

Conjugation

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