stability

Forms

Plural: stabilities

Definitions

1.The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.
2.The tendency to recover from perturbations.
- 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.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3462

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Rare
General reading & writing: Uncommon
Academic: Uncommon
Literature: Rare

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.