stability

Other forms of stability

plural

stabilities·

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 stability

What does stability mean?

stability means "the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stability?

stability has 4 syllables: sta-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /stəˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for stability?

Close synonyms include stableness, constancy. 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 stability?

The recorded antonyms are instability, instability.

Is stability a common word?

stability 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 stability?

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