'Instability' definitions:
Definition of 'instability'
(from WordNet)
noun
An unstable order [ant: stability]
noun
Unreliability attributable to being unstable
noun
A lack of balance or state of disequilibrium; "a hormonal imbalance" [syn: imbalance, instability, unbalance] [ant: balance]
noun
The quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute [syn: instability, unstableness] [ant: stability, stableness]
Definition of 'Instability'
From: GCIDE
- Instability \In`sta*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Instabilities. [L. instabilitas: cf. F. instabilit['e].] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality or condition of being unstable; lack of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'instability'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambitendency,
- ambivalence,
- caducity,
- capriciousness,
- chanciness,
- change of mind,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- choppiness,
- corruptibility,
- criticalness,
- danger,
- dappleness,
- death,
- decrepitude,
- delicacy,
- desultoriness,
- deviability,
- deviation,
- difference,
- differentiation,
- disorder,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- double-mindedness,
- doubtfulness,
- dubiety,
- dubiousness,
- eccentricity,
- ephemerality,
- ephemeralness,
- erraticism,
- evanescence,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fickleness,
- finitude,
- fleetingness,
- flightiness,
- freakishness,
- fugacity,
- hazard,
- hazardousness,
- impermanence,
- impermanency,
- impulsiveness,
- incapacity,
- inconsistency,
- inconstancy,
- indecision,
- indecisiveness,
- inequality,
- infirmity,
- infirmity of purpose,
- insecurity,
- insipidity,
- insolidity,
- insubstantiality,
- invalidism,
- irregularity,
- irresolution,
- jerkiness,
- mercuriality,
- momentariness,
- moodiness,
- mortality,
- motleyness,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- mutability,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- nonstandardization,
- nonuniformity,
- peril,
- perilousness,
- perishability,
- pluralism,
- precariousness,
- raggedness,
- restlessness,
- ricketiness,
- risk,
- riskiness,
- second thoughts,
- senility,
- shakiness,
- shiftiness,
- shiftingness,
- slipperiness,
- speculativeness,
- sword of Damocles,
- tergiversation,
- ticklish business,
- ticklishness,
- totteriness,
- touchiness,
- transience,
- transiency,
- transientness,
- transitoriness,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- unauthenticity,
- unauthoritativeness,
- uncertainty,
- unconformism,
- unconformity,
- undecidedness,
- undependability,
- undeterminedness,
- unevenness,
- unfaithworthiness,
- unfirmness,
- unfixedness,
- unhealthiness,
- unorthodoxy,
- unpredictability,
- unreliability,
- unsafeness,
- unsettledness,
- unsettlement,
- unsolidity,
- unsoundness,
- unstableness,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsturdiness,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsureness,
- untrustworthiness,
- vapidity,
- variability,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety,
- variousness,
- versatility,
- volatility,
- wantonness,
- wateriness,
- wavering,
- waywardness,
- whimsicality,
- wishy-washiness