Hypertext Webster Gateway: "instability"

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) 1.7 (wn)

instability
n 1: an unstable order [ant: {stability}]
2: unreliability attributable to being unstable
3: a state of disequilibrium (as may occur in cases of inner
ear disease) [syn: {imbalance}, {unbalance}] [ant: {balance}]
4: the quality or attribute of being unstable [syn: {unstableness}]
[ant: {stability}, {stability}]


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