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instability

n.

inconstancy, changeability, immaturity, mutability, variability, unstableness, nonuniformity, inconsistency, irregularity, imbalance, disequilibrium, unsteadiness, shakiness, precariousness, vulnerability, pliancy, fluidity, restlessness, inquietude, disquiet, anxiety, fluctuation, alternation, oscillation, fitfulness, impermanence, transience, vacillation, hesitation, flightiness, capriciousness, wavering, irresolution, uncertainty, fickleness, volatility; see also change 1, mobility, weakness 1, 2.

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Another word for instability

noun

The quality or condition of being physically unsteady:
precariousness, ricketiness, shakiness, unstableness, unsteadiness, wobbliness. See flexible
The quality or condition of being erratic and undependable:
insecureness, insecurity, precariousness, shakiness, unstableness, unsteadiness, unsureness. See change, strong

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Think of the things she would miss and the instability of having no parents.
And the instability of Gustavus's position.
The protoplasm is in a condition of instability and is continually breaking down to a certain extent, giving rise to various substances of different degrees of complexity, some of which are again built up by it into its own substances, and others, more simple in composition, are given off.
Had it not been for the political instability of the country, the effects of the diminution of expenditure on military and naval preparations would have effected a rapid improvement in its financial position.
A certain instability of character is revealed by the fact that he took up arms against Ramiro, having repented of his renunciation of the world.

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