Instability
[ɪnstə'bɪlɪtɪ] or [,ɪnstə'bɪləti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute.
(noun.) unreliability attributable to being unstable.
(noun.) an unstable order.
Typed by Billie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc.
Inputed by Lewis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inconstancy, mutability, changeableness.
Inputed by Kari
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mutability, wavering, fickleness, inconstancy
ANT:Stability, firmness, constancy
Edited by Horace
Definition
n. want of steadiness or firmness: inconstancy fickleness: mutability.—adj. Instā′ble not stable: inconstant.
Typist: Vivienne
Examples
- Such was the supposed instability of government, that even these terms procured few purchasers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But of the split itself he is unaware; the result is a kind of unconscious hypocrisy, an instability of disposition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is sufficient if the idea strikes on us with such force, and concerns us so nearly, as to give us an uneasiness in its instability and inconstancy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She had become grave, and often conversed of the inconstancy of fortune, and the instability of human life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Edited by Albert