stability

noun
/stəˈbɪlɪti/

Etymology

From Middle English stabletee, stabilite, from Old French stabilité, from Latin root of stabilitas (“firmness, steadfastness”), from stabilis (“steadfast, firm”). Displaced native Old English staþolfæstnes.

  1. derived from stabilité
  2. inherited from stabletee

Definitions

  1. The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.

    • This platform offers good stability
  2. The tendency to recover from perturbations.

    • emotional stability
    • Globalization has re-ordered the global economy in ways that are destructive to civic stability, as decentralized, localized producers cannot compete with globalized, commoditized crops, capital, labor and goods.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stability. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA