stability

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.

• IPA^(key): /stəˈbɪlɪti/, [stəˈbɪlɪɾi]

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

stability (countable and uncountable, plural stabilities)

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

   Synonym: stableness

   Antonym: instability

   This platform offers good stability

2. The tendency to recover from perturbations.

   emotional stability

   • 2025 February 13, Charles Hugh Smith, The Not-So-Strange Paradox of American Power and Dysfunction‎^[1]:

     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.