unsteadiness

1. 1.

   the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place

   Synonymsricketiness

   Antonymssteadiness

   Broadermovability
2. 2.

   the quality of being unsteady--varying and unpredictable

   Antonymssteadiness

   Broaderirregularity

   Narrowerinstability

Other forms of unsteadiness

plural

unsteadinesses·

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 unsteadiness

What does unsteadiness mean?

unsteadiness means "the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unsteadiness?

unsteadiness has 5 syllables: un-ste-a-di-ness. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for unsteadiness?

Close synonyms include ricketiness. 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 unsteadiness?

The recorded antonyms are steadiness, steadiness.

Is unsteadiness a common word?

unsteadiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.