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English
Etymology
From Middle English stabletee, stabilite, from Old French stabilité, from Latin root of stabilitas (“firmness, steadfastness”), from stabilis (“steadfast, firm”). Displaced native Old English staþolfæstnes.
Pronunciation
Noun
stability (countable and uncountable, plural stabilities)
- The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.
- Synonym: stableness
- Antonym: instability
This platform offers good stability
- The tendency to recover from perturbations.
emotional stability
2025 February 13, Charles Hugh Smith, The Not-So-Strange Paradox of American Power and Dysfunction:Globalization has re-ordered the global economy in ways that are destructive to civic stability, as decentralized, localized producers cannot compete with globalized, commoditized crops, capital, labor and goods.
Derived terms
Translations
condition of being stable
- Afrikaans: stabiliteit
- Armenian: կայունություն (hy) (kayunutʻyun)
- Asturian: estabilidá f
- Azerbaijani: sabitlik (az), dayanıqlılıq
- Belarusian: стабі́льнасць f (stabílʹnascʹ)
- Bulgarian: стабилност (bg) f (stabilnost), устойчивост (bg) (ustojčivost)
- Catalan: estabilitat f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 穩定性 / 稳定性 (zh) (wěndìngxìng), 穩定 / 稳定 (zh) (wěndìng)
- Czech: stabilita (cs) f
- Dutch: stabiliteit (nl)
- Esperanto: stabileco
- Estonian: stabiilsus
- Finnish: vakaus (fi)
- French: stabilité (fr)
- Galician: estabilidade (gl) f
- German: Stabilität (de) f
- Hebrew: יציבות f (yatsivút)
- Hungarian: stabilitás (hu)
- Icelandic: stöðugleiki m
- Indonesian: stabilitas (id), kestabilan (id)
- Interlingua: stabilitate
- Irish: diongbháilteacht f, diongbháil f
- Italian: stabilità (it) f
- Japanese: 安定性 (あんていせい, anteisei), 安定 (ja) (あんてい, antei), スタビリティー (sutabiritī)
- Latin: firmitās f, firmitūdō, stabilitās f
- Malay: kestabilan
- Manchu: ᠠᡴᡩᡠᠨ (akdun)
- Maori: pūmautanga
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: бат бөх байдал (bat böx bajdal), тогтвортой байдал (togtvortoj bajdal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stabilitet m
- Nynorsk: stabilitet m
- Old English: staþolfæstnes f
- Ottoman Turkish: دنك (denk), موازنه (muvâzene), اعتدال (i’tidâl) (equilibrium, poise)
- Polish: stabilność (pl) f
- Portuguese: estabilidade (pt) f
- Romanian: stabilitate (ro) f
- Russian: стаби́льность (ru) f (stabílʹnostʹ), усто́йчивость (ru) f (ustójčivostʹ)
- Spanish: estabilidad (es) f
- Swedish: stabilitet (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagkamatatag
- Turkish: stabilite (tr)
- Ukrainian: стабі́льність f (stabílʹnistʹ)
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tendency to recover from perturbations
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