Definition for Instability:

• The quality or condition of being unstable; lack of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.

Synonyms for Instability:

• n.

  •
  • precipice,
  • havoc,
  • emergency,
  • escapade,
  • adventure,
  • threat,
  • crisis,
  • a disaster waiting to happen,
  • minefield.
  •
  • dementia,
  • bipolar disorder,
  • Asperger's syndrome,
  • agoraphobia,
  • claustrophobia,
  • delusion,
  • autism,
  • combat fatigue,
  • flexible,
  • breakdown.
  •
  • change,
  • brittleness,
  • fragility,
  • strong,
  • delicacy,
  • insecurity.
  •attribute (noun)
  • instability.
  •danger (noun)
  • thin ice,
  • jeopardy,
  • risky business,
  • exposure,
  • Exigencies,
  • Uncertainties,
  • hot potato,
  • Imperilment,
  • double trouble,
  • slipperiness.
  •disorder (noun)
  • turbulence.
  •flightiness (noun)
  • in-constancy,
  • changeabilities,
  • whimsicalnesses,
  • airheadednesses,
  • in constancies,
  • in-constancies,
  • capriciousnesses,
  • in constancy,
  • mercurialnesses,
  • ficklenesses.
  •flux (noun)
  • un rest,
  • un-rests,
  • un-rest,
  • un rests.
  •imbalance (noun)
  • unbalance.
  •imbalance, inconstancy (noun)
  • uncertainty,
  • irresolution,
  • irregularity,
  • anxiety,
  • fluctuation,
  • disquiet,
  • oscillation,
  • inconsistency,
  • vacillation,
  • hesitation,
  • inquietude,
  • pliancy,
  • alternation,
  • transience,
  • disequilibrium,
  • wavering,
  • frailty,
  • volatility,
  • fitfulness,
  • vulnerability.
  •restlessness (noun)
  • Ants,
  • fretfulness,
  • ant,
  • restiveness,
  • jumpiness,
  • antsiness,
  • excitability,
  • Unsettledness,
  • edginess,
  • unease,
  • worriedness.
  •ricketiness (noun)
  • in consistency,
  • in-consistency,
  • unfixednesses,
  • un predictability,
  • changeablenesses,
  • un fixednesses,
  • un reliabilities,
  • un reliability,
  • un-reliability,
  • un-predictability,
  • impermanences,
  • in-consistencies,
  • un-fixednesses,
  • un-reliabilities,
  • un predictabilities,
  • un fixedness,
  • un-predictabilities,
  • unreliabilities,
  • wobblinesses,
  • in consistencies,
  • un-fixedness.
  •turbulence (noun)
  • tempestuousnesses.
  •unbalance (noun)
  • astasia,
  • disequilibration.
  •uncertainty (noun)
  • incertitude.
  •uneasiness (noun)
  • re morses,
  • dis comfort,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis-comforts,
  • un-easiness,
  • dis-content,
  • dis content,
  • dis-beliefs,
  • dyspathies,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • dis contents,
  • mis giving,
  • dis-belief,
  • dis comforts,
  • dis belief,
  • re-morses,
  • re-morse,
  • un-easinesses,
  • dis pleasures,
  • dis beliefs,
  • dis-contents,
  • dis-pleasure,
  • queasinesses,
  • re morse,
  • un easinesses,
  • dis pleasure,
  • mis-giving,
  • un easiness.
  •unsteadiness (noun)
  • un steadiness,
  • un-steadiness,
  • un-steadinesses,
  • un steadinesses.
  •weakness (noun)
  • vitiation,
  • faintness,
  • invalidities,
  • sore point,
  • powerlessness,
  • invalidity,
  • weak point,
  • chink in armor.
  •weak point (noun)
  • weak-point.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unsteadiness,
  • megalomania,
  • insecureness,
  • precariousness,
  • unsureness.
  •
  • immaturity.
  •attractive force
  • affinity.
  •giddiness
  • flightiness.

Paraphrases for Instability:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    volatility, destabilization, destabilisation.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    stability.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fragility, Lability, stabilization, upheaval, precarity, variability, anxiety, strife, disturbance, fluctuation, disorder, uneasiness, unease, dislocation, trouble.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    insecurity, uncertainty, unrest, precariousness, fluidity, disruption, chaos.

Antonyms for Instability:

• n.

  • imbalance, inconstancy
    calm, balance, soundness, steadfastness, constancy, stability.
  • Other antonyms:
    stableness, firmness, fastness, fixedness, substantiality.

Instability Sentence Examples:

• But they are alarmed at its instability; they have never known one live for more than a year or two, or die except in convulsions.

• And the truth was forced upon me that Morocco was nearer the brink of dissolution than it had ever been - that instability was the dominant note of social and political life.

Hyponym for Instability:

• n.

  • attribute
    undependability, unreliableness, unreliability, undependableness.
  • state
    disorder.