From Middle French instabilité, from Latin instabilitas.
Morphologically in- + stability.
instability (countable and uncountable, plural instabilities)
- (uncountable) The quality of being unstable.
- (physics, countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
quality of being unstable
- Asturian: inestabilidá f
- Azerbaijani: sabitsizlik
- Bulgarian: нестабилност (bg) f (nestabilnost)
- Catalan: inestabilitat f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不穩定／不稳定 (bù wěndìng), 不穩定性／不稳定性 (bù wěndìng xìng), 不穩固／不稳固 (bù wěngù), 不穩固性／不稳固性 (bù wěngù xìng)
- Dutch: instabiliteit (nl) f
- Finnish: epävakaus
- French: instabilité (fr) f
- Galician: inestabilidade (gl) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Instabilität (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀκαταστασία f (akatastasía)
- Irish: éagobhsaíocht f
- Italian: instabilità (it) f, dissesto (it) m
- Latin: instabilitas f
- Malay: ketidakstabilan
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ustabilitet m
- Nynorsk: ustabilitet m
- Persian: ناپایداری (fa) (nâpâydâri)
- Polish: niestabilność (pl) f
- Portuguese: instabilidade (pt) f
- Russian: нестаби́льность (ru) f (nestabílʹnostʹ), неусто́йчивость (ru) f (neustójčivostʹ), непро́чность (ru) f (nepróčnostʹ), непостоя́нство (ru) n (nepostojánstvo), зы́бкость (ru) f (zýbkostʹ), неуравнове́шенность (ru) f (neuravnovéšennostʹ)
- Spanish: inestabilidad (es) f
- Tajik: нопойдорӣ (nopoydori)
- Ukrainian: нестабі́льність f (nestabílʹnistʹ), несті́йкість f (nestíjkistʹ)
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