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Synonyms of instability in English:

instability


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noun

1‘the instability of political life’

SYNONYMS
unreliability, uncertainty, unpredictability, unpredictableness, precariousness, unsteadiness, insecurity, vulnerability, perilousness, riskiness
impermanence, temporariness, transience, inconstancy, changeability, variability
fluidity, fluctuation, rise and fall, rising and falling
informal chanciness, iffiness
British informal dodginess
literary mutability
ANTONYMS

stability

2‘her emotional instability’

SYNONYMS
changeableness, variability, capriciousness, volatility, flightiness, fitfulness, vacillation, oscillation, unpredictability, unpredictableness
moodiness, a tendency to blow hot and cold
unsoundness, frailty, infirmity, weakness, irregularity, abnormality
rare erraticism
ANTONYMS

stability

3‘the instability of the building's foundations’

SYNONYMS
unsteadiness, unsoundness, shakiness, ricketiness, wobbliness, frailty, fragility, flimsiness, insubstantiality
ANTONYMS

stability, soundness