Instability definition

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instabilities
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The quality or condition of being unstable.

Economic instability; emotional instability.

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Tendency to behave or react violently or erratically.

The instability of a chemical compound, emotional instability.

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The definition of instability is a lack of stability or balance, or a tendency towards unpredictable or erratic behavior.

When you swing from one emotion to another, first feeling happy and then very sad for no reason, this is an example of emotional instability.

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(uncountable) The quality of being unstable.
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(physics, countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
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Lack of stability; unstableness.
  • Lack of firmness or steadiness.
  • Lack of determination; irresolution.
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Singular:
instability
Plural:
instabilities

Origin of instability

  • From Middle French instabilité, from Latin instabilitas

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Instability Sentence Examples

  • Think of the things she would miss and the instability of having no parents.

  • A certain instability of character is revealed by the fact that he took up arms against Ramiro, having repented of his renunciation of the world.

  • The protoplasm is in a condition of instability and is continually breaking down to a certain extent, giving rise to various substances of different degrees of complexity, some of which are again built up by it into its own substances, and others, more simple in composition, are given off.

  • The instability hasn't impacted his finances at all.

  • Starting from a widely diffused nebula, more or less uniform, we find that, in consequence of gravitational instability, it will tend to condense about a number of nuclei.

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