stability
noun/stəˈbɪlɪti/ · [stəˈbɪlɪɾi]
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.
1
The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.
- This platform offers good stability
2
The tendency to recover from perturbations.
- emotional stability
- 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.2025 February 13, Charles Hugh Smith, The Not-So-Strange Paradox of American Power and Dysfunction:
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acidostability, angle of vanishing stability, autostability, biostability, bistability, chemostability, continent of stability, cryostability, dimensional stability, directional stability, electronic stability control, Fourier stability analysis, halostability, hyperstability, hypostability, island of stability, limit of positive stability, mechanostability, mesostability, metacentric stability, metastability, monostability, multistability, nonstability, overstability, photostability, polystability, prestability, price stability, quasistability, semistability, stability conditions, superstability, thermostability, tristability, ultrastability, von Neumann stability analysis