stability

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French stabilité, from Latin root of stabilitas (“firmness, steadfastness”), from stabilis (“steadfast, firm”)

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Noun

stability (countable and uncountable; plural stabilities)

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

Translations

condition of being stable

• Asturian: estabilidá (ast) f
• Catalan: estabilitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穩定性 (cmn), 稳定性 (cmn) (wěndìngxìng), 穩定 (cmn), 稳定 (cmn) (wěndìng)

• Czech: stabilita (cs) f
• Finnish: vakaus (fi)
• French: stabilité (fr)
• Galician: estabilidade (gl) f
• German: Stabilität (de) f
• Hebrew: יציבות (he) (y'tsivút) f

• Interlingua: stabilitate (ia)
• Irish: diongbháilteacht (ga) f, diongbháil (ga) f
• Italian: stabilità (it) f
• Japanese: 安定性 (ja) (あんていせい, anteisei), 安定 (ja) (あんてい, antei), スタビリティー (ja) (sutabiritī)
• Latin: firmitas (la) f, firmitudo (la), stabilitas (la) f
• Portuguese: estabilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: stabilitate (ro) f
• Russian: стабильность (ru) (stabílʹnostʹ) f 
• Spanish: estabilidad (es) f

tendency to recover from perturbations

• Finnish: vakaus (fi)
• French: stabilité (fr) f
• German: Stabilität (de) f
• Hebrew: יציבות (he) (y'tsivút) f
• Interlingua: stabilitate (ia)

• Italian: stabilità (it) f
• Latin: firmitas (la) f, firmitudo (la) f, stabilitas (la) f
• Romanian: stabilitate (ro)
• Spanish: estabilidad (es) f

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• Dutch: stabiliteit (nl) f