Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state, character, or property of being stable, in any sense of the word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.

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  • noun The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast

Etymologies

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stable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • maybe i have it all wrong, because i could never be in her shoes, but it seems like she's missing out and sacrificing her youth for 'stableness'. when rushed might not be all too stable in the long run.

    Archive 2009-12-01 floreta 2009

  • maybe i have it all wrong, because i could never be in her shoes, but it seems like she's missing out and sacrificing her youth for 'stableness'. when rushed might not be all too stable in the long run.

    Archive Monday: In My Shoes floreta 2009

  • Preferably, for your own sense of truthiness and stableness, several times a day.

    Norman Lear: I Must Confess 2008

  • But permit me to say that if there is any one thing in earth that I owe for my stableness in that which is right, it is my having been immediately under the good influences of Emerson Institute and its earnest teachers.

    The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 9, September, 1896 Various

  • I recognised at once that the poem was fraught with a pathos as magnificent as anything in the whole range of classic literature -- and also that this pathos had that touch of stableness in sorrow which we associate, and rightly associate, with the classics.

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • If the brain is not rested and the emotions satisfied by the relationships in the home, a feverish unrest, a nervous irritability, a futile search supplant the calmness of spirit, stableness of reactions and depth of contentment which must be long continued to become a habit of mind.

    The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals Charles William Eliot 1880

  • Winthrop said nothing, for his thoughts were busy with that image of sweet self-guidance which he had never known to be unsteady or fail; and which, he knew, referred all its strength and all its stableness to the keeping of another hand.

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

  • Winthrop said nothing, for his thoughts were busy with that image of sweet self-guidance which he had never known to be unsteady or fail; and which, he knew, referred all its strength and all its stableness to the keeping of another hand.

    Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852

  • If you're stretching to damp ironing a shenyang machine tool group company ltd of stableness and wonder the club to garden badly sized documents, you should typically invent a mental machine.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • If you're stretching to damp ironing a shenyang machine tool group company ltd of stableness and wonder the club to garden badly sized documents, you should typically invent a mental machine.

    Wii-volution 2010

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