instability
pronunciation
How to pronounce instability in British English:
UK [ˌɪnstəˈbɪləti]
How to pronounce instability in American English:
US [ˌɪnstəˈbɪlɪti]
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- Noun:
- an unstable order
- unreliability attributable to being unstable
- a state of disequilibrium (as may occur in cases of inner ear disease)
- the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute
Word Origin
- instability (n.)
- early 15c., from Middle French instabilite "inconstancy," from Latin instabilitatem (nominative instabilitas) "unsteadiness," from instabilis "unsteady," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + stabilis (see stable (2)).
Example
- 1. Yet china fears the instability economic action could bring .
- 2. Instability is the new certainty .
- 3. The first is economic instability .
- 4. Financial instability is a salient example .
- 5. And that too creates instability .