stability
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stability \Sta*bil"i*ty\ (st[.a]*b[i^]l"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L.
stabilitas; cf. F. stabilit['e]. See {Stable}, a.]
1. The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness;
stableness; firmness; strength to stand without being
moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the
stability of a throne or a constitution.
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2. Steadiness or firmness of character; firmness of
resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to
{fickleness}, {irresolution}, or {inconstancy}; constancy;
steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of
unusual stability.
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3. Fixedness; -- as opposed to {fluidity}.
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Since fluidness and stability are contrary
qualities. --Boyle.
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Syn: Steadiness; stableness; constancy; immovability;
firmness.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
226 Moby Thesaurus words for "stability":
abidingness, abnegation, abstinence, accordance, age, antiquity,
application, assiduity, assiduousness, authenticity,
authoritativeness, body, bulldog tenacity, calculability, calm,
calmness, ceaselessness, changelessness, coeternity, cohesion,
concentration, concreteness, consecutiveness, conservatism,
consistency, consonance, constancy, constant flow, constraint,
continence, continualness, continuance, continuity, continuousness,
control, cool, correspondence, defeat of time, defiance of time,
density, dependability, determination, diligence, dispassion,
diuturnity, dogged perseverance, doggedness, durability,
durableness, duration, endlessness, endurance, engrossment,
equability, equanimity, equilibrium, eternalness, eternity,
evenness, ever-duringness, everlastingness, everness,
faithworthiness, featurelessness, fidelity, firmness, fixedness,
foreverness, frozenness, fullness, gaplessness, gentleness,
golden mean, happy medium, hardening, hardness, homogeneity,
immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability,
impartiality, incessancy, indefatigability, indestructibility,
industriousness, industry, infinite duration, infinity, insistence,
insistency, interminability, invariability, invariableness,
inveteracy, invincibility, jointlessness, judiciousness,
juste-milieu, lastingness, lenity, long standing, long-lastingness,
long-livedness, longevity, loyalty, maintenance, mass, materiality,
meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation,
moderationism, monolithism, monotony, neutrality, never-endingness,
nonviolence, nothing in excess, obstinacy, pacifism, palpability,
patience, patience of Job, perdurability, perennation,
perenniality, perennialness, permanence, permanency, perpetualness,
perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, persistency,
pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plenitude, plodding, plugging,
ponderability, predictability, preoccupation, prudence, quiescence,
relentlessness, reliability, repose, resoluteness, resolution,
resolve, restraint, rigidity, seamlessness, secureness, security,
sedulity, sedulousness, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial,
self-restraint, sempiternity, serenity, single-mindedness,
singleness of purpose, slogging, smoothness, sobriety, solidity,
solidness, soundness, stableness, stamina, standing, stasis,
staunchness, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness,
steady state, stick-to-itiveness, stoutness, strength,
stubbornness, sturdiness, substance, substantiality,
substantialness, successiveness, survival, survivance, tangibility,
temper, temperance, temperateness, tenaciousness, tenacity,
timelessness, tirelessness, torpor, toughness, tranquillity,
trustworthiness, unbrokenness, unceasingness, unchangeability,
unchangingness, undifferentiation, unerringness, unexcessiveness,
unextravagance, unextremeness, uniformity, unintermittedness,
uninterruptedness, uninterruption, unity, unrelievedness,
unremittingness, unruffledness, unswerving attention, validity,
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