instability
noun
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an unstable order
Types & categories
- disorder hypernym
Related & opposite
- stability antonym
Sense 2 noun
unreliability attributable to being unstable
Types & categories
- undependability hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
a hormonal imbalance
Types & categories
- disequilibrium hypernym
Related & opposite
- balance antonym
Sense 4 noun
the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute
Types & categories
- unsteadiness hypernym
- shakiness hyponym
Related & opposite
- stability antonym
- precarious derivation
- unstable derivation
- unstable derivation
- mentally ill derivation
- unstable derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | stability |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | disorder |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | undependability |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | balance |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | disequilibrium |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | stability |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | precarious |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | unstable |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | unstable |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | mentally ill |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | unstable |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | unsteadiness |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | shakiness |