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instability |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Instability \In`sta*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl {Instabilities}. [L. instabilitas: cf F. instabilit['e].] 1. The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail insecurity; precariousness; as the instability of a building. 2. Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as instability of character, temper, custom, etc --Addison. Syn: Inconstancy; fickleness; changeableness; wavering; unsteadiness; unstableness. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: instability n 1: an unstable order [ant: {stability}] 2: unreliability attributable to being unstable 3: a state of disequilibrium [syn: {imbalance}, {unbalance}] [ant: {balance}] 4: the quality or attribute of being unstable [syn: {unstableness}] [ant: {stability}, {stability}]
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