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UK
/ɪnstəbˈɪlɪti/
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[ US /ˌɪnstəˈbɪɫɪti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnstəˈbɪɫɪti/ ]
NOUN
- an unstable order
- unreliability attributable to being unstable
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a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
a hormonal imbalance - the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute
How To Use instability In A Sentence
- He contemptuously dismissed any suggestion to the effect that the dollar was overvalued, or that its climb to record highs on a trade-weighted basis was becoming a source of economic instability.
- The increased inflation will inject a degree of instability into the economy.
- Regularization is an effective way to eliminate such an instability.
- In 1974, Lawrence Stone identified "the absence of charismatic leadership" during Edward VI's reign as one of the causes for political instability yet the behavior of Mary's household suggests that Catholics, in particular the Catholic dependents associated with Mary's household, had found in the princess householder a leader of sufficient thaumaturgical charisma that they were willing to risk death on her behalf. 95 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
- What people want in a period of financial instability is certainty, not fiddling. Times, Sunday Times
- Neither side has an interest in a proxy war or instability in their northern neighbour. Times, Sunday Times
- And a study in the journal Radiation Research concluded that THz radiation causes DNA instability. Anne Dunev: How Iodine May Help Protect You From Radiation Damage
- Fundamental in the personality of the hysterics is this instability, this emotionality, which is however secondary to an egotistic, easily wounded nature, craving sympathy and respect and often unable legitimately to earn them. The Nervous Housewife
- Yet, at the same time, threats will be multiplying from a youthful population in the crescent of instability running from Africa through the Middle East and into the former Soviet bloc. Too old to fight?
- The cultural patterns themselves are influenced by the structural instability and the cultural stalemate.