instability

Other forms of instability

plural

instabilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about instability

What does instability mean?

instability means "an unstable order". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in instability?

instability has 5 syllables: in-sta-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌɪnstəˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for instability?

Close synonyms include imbalance, unbalance, unstableness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of instability?

The recorded antonyms are stability, stability.

Is instability a common word?

instability is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with instability?

48 words rhyme with instability. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.