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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Loss or lack of stability or equilibrium.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An imperfect equilibrium, as of intellectual and moral faculties.

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  • noun the loss of equilibrium or stability, especially due to an imbalance of forces

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  • noun loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ equilibrium

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Examples

  • Classically trained professionals and laypeople alike offered similar explanations for why people fell sick: the body's four humors had been thrown out of balance, causing one or more of these fluids to be in disequilibrium with the others.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • The difficulty is, of course, as we have seen in the German case, to reach agreement in a given moment on whether a fundamental disequilibrium is prevalent.

    Lessons from International Monetary Experience in 1969 1970

  • The new editor of the AER is Robert Clower, a UCLA professor who is widely known as a disequilibrium theorist and interpreter or reinterpreter of Keynes.

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • Now, once you get all those factors, which are long-running historical forces, and you put them all together, you get a very disjointed, dis - -- a region in disequilibrium, which is what the Middle East is now.

    Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience 2002

  • Webster calls disequilibrium “a state of emotional or intellectual imbalance.”

    Navigating the Winds of Change LYNN ANDERSON 1994

  • On Wednesday, he accused prosecutors of creating "disequilibrium" in the justice system by making "political use" of the courts.

    Berlusconi Survives Key Vote Stacy Meichtry 2010

  • You would expect a few embarrassing simplifications, but there are none--the argument is airtight, and Médaille leaves almost nothing out I wish he had addressed the mid-twentieth century economist Joseph Schumpeter, who coined the phrase "creative destruction," and reworkd classical economics to account for "disequilibrium" and the dominance of large firms.

    The Vocation of Business Richard Aleman 2007

  • You would expect a few embarrassing simplifications, but there are none--the argument is airtight, and Médaille leaves almost nothing out I wish he had addressed the mid-twentieth century economist Joseph Schumpeter, who coined the phrase "creative destruction," and reworkd classical economics to account for "disequilibrium" and the dominance of large firms.

    Archive 2007-08-01 John M 2007

  • Such an excess, either way, may be regarded as a sign of disequilibrium - a disequilibrium which is perfectly possible, even in a barter economy. 11

    John R. Hicks - Prize Lecture 1992

  • This means we are in a permanent state of monetary disequilibrium which is reflected in unstable exchange rates.

    Safehaven Gerard Jackson 2010

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