Associations to the word «Instability»

Wiktionary

INSTABILITY, noun. (uncountable) The quality of being unstable.
INSTABILITY, noun. (physics) (countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.

Dictionary definition

INSTABILITY, noun. An unstable order.
INSTABILITY, noun. Unreliability attributable to being unstable.
INSTABILITY, noun. A lack of balance or state of disequilibrium; "a hormonal imbalance".
INSTABILITY, noun. The quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope