Definitions

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  • noun Instability.

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  • noun The quality of being unstable; instability

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  • noun the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute

Etymologies

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unstable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • It's not always only roses with my husband now, but we both respect each others personality and unstableness.

    Confession floreta 2009

  • The loneliness and abandonment Campana felt during this period ultimately did lead to his unstableness, and when he was called up by the army for duty, he was declared mentally unbalanced, and was classified as hopelessly insane and was put away at the Castel Pulci, a psychiatric hospital, where he remained, carrying on a correspondence with Soffici, Cecchi, and others for the rest of his life.

    Dino Campana greenintegerblog 2008

  • HELLMKE: Well, obviously, you don't want to go right out to the edge of the ice where they are because of the unstableness of the ice.

    CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2005 2005

  • Mokubung said the unstableness was caused by frustration as the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • But God knoweth his thought and his unstableness, and yet shall he die right an holy man, and no doubt he hath no fellow of no earthly sinful man.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • Of all that deformity and dissimilitude to the divine nature which is come upon us by the fall, there is no one part more eminent, or rather no one defect more evident, than inconstancy and unstableness of mind in embracing that which is spiritually good.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • But God knoweth his thought and his unstableness, and yet shall he die right an holy man, and no doubt he hath no fellow of no earthly sinful man.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • Her mind was racked by inconsistencies, but she did not perceive it herself, otherwise she must also have observed that she was running up the whole gamut of her past moods and experiences, only to find how unsatisfactory in its unstableness and futility was each.

    The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand

  • But God knoweth his thought and his unstableness, and yet shall he die right an holy man, and no doubt he hath no fellow of no earthly sinful man.

    Chapter V. The Sixteenth Book. Of the Good Counsel That the Hermit Gave to Him 1909

  • Gerard turned himself to God with the strength of his whole heart, for he said, "I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners"; and so, God working with him, he exchanged riches for poverty, pride for humility, luxury for self-denial, unstableness for a stedfast mind, worldliness for a spiritual life, subtlety for devotion and singlemindedness.

    The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers. 1379?-1471 1905

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