stability

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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

  • IPA(key): /stəˈbɪlɪti/,
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  • Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

stability (countable and uncountable, plural stabilities)

  1. The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.
    Synonym: stableness
    Antonym: instability
    This platform offers good stability
  2. 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.

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