stability

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stəˈbɪlɪti/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

stability (countable and uncountable, plural stabilities)

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

   Antonym: instability

2. The tendency to recover from perturbations.

Translations

condition of being stable

• Asturian: estabilidá f
• Azerbaijani: sabitlik (az), dayanıqlılıq
• Catalan: estabilitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穩定性／稳定性 (zh) (wěndìngxìng), 稳定性 (zh) (wěndìngxìng), 穩定／稳定 (zh) (wěndìng), 稳定 (zh) (wěndìng)

• Czech: stabilita (cs) f
• Estonian: stabiilsus
• Finnish: vakaus (fi)
• French: stabilité (fr)
• Galician: estabilidade (gl) f
• German: Stabilität (de) f
• Hebrew: יציבות f (y'tsivút)
• Hungarian: stabilitás (hu)
• Interlingua: stabilitate
• Irish: diongbháilteacht f, diongbháil f
• Italian: stabilità (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 安定性 (あんていせい, anteisei), 安定 (ja) (あんてい, antei), スタビリティー (sutabiritī)
• Latin: firmitās f, firmitūdō, stabilitās f
• Malay: kestabilan
• Manchu: ᠠᡴᡩᡠᠨ (akdun)
• Maori: pūmautanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stabilitet m

  Nynorsk: stabilitet m

• Portuguese: estabilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: stabilitate (ro) f
• Russian: стаби́льность (ru) f (stabílʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: estabilidad (es) f
• Swedish: stabilitet (sv) c
• Tagalog: katatagan

tendency to recover from perturbations

• Finnish: vakaus (fi)
• French: stabilité (fr) f
• German: Stabilität (de) f
• Hebrew: יציבות f (y'tsivút)
• Interlingua: stabilitate
• Italian: stabilità (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: firmitas f, firmitudo f, stabilitas f
• Malay: kestabilan
• Portuguese: estabilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: stabilitate (ro)
• Spanish: estabilidad (es) f

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• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} stabiliteit (nl) f
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