Stability
[stə'bɪlɪtɪ] or [stə'bɪləti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast.
(noun.) a stable order (especially of society).
Checker: Norris--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.
(a.) Steadiness or firmness of character, firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to fickleness, irresolution, or inconstancy; constancy; steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of unusual stability.
(a.) Fixedness; -- as opposed to fluidity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Fixedness, durability, permanence, stableness.[2]. Constancy, steadiness, firmness.
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Examples
- He wants superfine stability. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The stability of the bank of England is equal to that of the British government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The gyroscope has been utilized to give steadiness to vessels in rough seas, and Sperry has made considerable progress in this country in applying it to give stability to an aeroplane. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No other people have ever approached moral order and social stability through the channel of manners. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The vulcanizing is a very important part of the manufacture of a rubber shoe, for it is absolutely necessary in order to give them stability and wearing qualities. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Certain differences between the great empires of the East and West were all in favour of the stability of the former. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- V, adopting purely and simply the arrangement of the American, Langley, which offers a good stability. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Where possession has no stability, there must be perpetual war. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Harriet, here comes a very sudden trial of our stability in good thoughts. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The case is here the same as in that law of nature concerning the stability of possession. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Plato had the ideal of an education which should equate individual realization and social coherency and stability. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was marriage--it was the wonderful stability of marriage. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And if they were founded on original instincts, coued they have any greater stability? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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