STABILITY
\stəbˈɪlɪti], \stəbˈɪlɪti], \s_t_ə_b_ˈɪ_l_ɪ_t_i]\
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The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; 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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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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Fixedness; -- as opposed to fluidity.
By Oddity Software
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The state or quality of being stable, or firm; firmness of character; strength of purpose or resolution; fixedness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.