unsteadiness

English

Etymology

From unsteady +‎ -ness.

Noun

unsteadiness (countable and uncountable, plural unsteadinesses)

1. The quality of being unsteady.
   • 1942 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: A Rebuilt Brighton 0-4-2 Tank”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:

     The Marsh rebuilding, with the higher-pitched and larger boiler and new standard boiler mountings, completely altered the appearance of the engine, which in its last guise was a very handsome machine; but unsteadiness in running at speeds over 50 m.p.h. resulted in no further such conversions being made.

Antonyms

• steadiness

Translations

the state of being unsteady

• Finnish: epävakaus
• Latin: instabilitas f
• Russian: неусто́йчивость (ru) f (neustójčivostʹ)