stability
Other forms: stabilities
Stability is the quality of being unchanging. You know you should be congratulated on your commitment to stability when you’ve lived in the same place your whole life.
Stability is often used to describe buildings or structures that won't collapse or fall down. Good tires will help you maintain stability on snowy or icy roads. You can use the word more figuratively for a safe environment or a healthy mental state. Financial and political stability are to be desired. Hopefully you will provide your children stability and love. When you have violent outbursts, people began to doubt your mental stability.
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the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast
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synonyms:
stableness
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Antonyms:
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instability, unstableness
the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute
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type of:
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firmness, steadiness
the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place
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instability, unstableness
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a stable order (especially of society)
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Antonyms:
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instability
an unstable order
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type of:
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order
established customary state (especially of society)
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instability
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the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation
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synonyms:
constancy
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Antonyms:
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changefulness, inconstancy
the quality of being changeable and variable
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types:
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invariance
the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it
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metastability
the quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed
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monotony
constancy of tone or pitch or inflection
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type of:
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changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness
the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged
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changefulness, inconstancy
/stəˈbɪlədi/
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Based on a true story, this historical novel follows twelve-year-old Petra and her family as they flee their home during the Mexican Revolution and travel through battlefields and deserts to find a better life in the United States.
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