In biology, nastic movements are non-directional responses to stimuli (e.g. temperature, humidity, light irradiance) that occur more rapidly than tropisms and are usually associated with plants.
The movement can be due to changes in turgor (internal pressure within plant cells).
Nastic movements differ from tropic movements in that the direction of tropic responses depends on the direction of the stimulus, whereas the direction of nastic movements is independent of the stimulus's position.
An example of such a response is the opening and closing of flowers (photonastic response), movement of euglena, chlamydomonas towards the source of light [citation needed].
They are named with the suffix "-nasty" and have prefixes that depend on the stimuli: The suffix may come from Greek νάσσω = 'I press', ναστός = 'pressed', ἐπιναστια = 'the condition of being pressed upon'.