instability
noun
[ ɪnstəˈbɪlɪti ]
• the state of being unstable; lack of stability.
• "political and economic instability"
Similar:
unreliability,
uncertainty,
unpredictability,
unpredictableness,
precariousness,
unsteadiness,
insecurity,
vulnerability,
perilousness,
riskiness,
impermanence,
temporariness,
transience,
inconstancy,
changeability,
variability,
fluidity,
fluctuation,
rise and fall,
rising and falling,
chanciness,
iffiness,
dodginess,
mutability,
unsoundness,
shakiness,
ricketiness,
wobbliness,
frailty,
fragility,
flimsiness,
insubstantiality,
Origin:
late Middle English: from French instabilité, from Latin instabilitas, from instabilis, from in- ‘not’ + stabilis (see stable1).
