stability

What it means

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

   This platform offers good stability

   Synonyms: stableness · Antonyms: instability

2. countableuncountableThe tendency to recover from perturbations.

   emotional stability

   1 more example

   Globalization has re-ordered the global economy in ways that are destructive to civic stability, as decentralized, localized producers cannot compete with globalized, commoditized crops, capital, labor and goods.

   2025 February 13, Charles Hugh Smith, The Not-So-Strange Paradox of American Power and Dysfunction

In a sentence

This platform offers good stability

Where it comes from

1. Old Frenchstabilité
2. Middle Englishstabletee
3. Englishstability

From Middle English stabletee, stabilite, from Old French stabilité, from Latin root of stabilitas (“firmness, steadfastness”), from stabilis (“steadfast, firm”). Displaced native Old English staþolfæstnes.