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disequilibrium

[dis-ee-kwuh-lib-ree-uhm, dis-ee-] / dɪsˌi kwəˈlɪb ri əm, ˌdɪs i- /






NOUN
unbalance
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We sense this disequilibrium in the cultural prominence of 24-hour cable news, streaming television and podcasts, an expansion of what in 1982 the cultural historian Walter J. Ong dubbed the age of “secondary orality.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

In a typical genomic region, many variants are highly correlated with each other, due to a phenomenon called linkage disequilibrium.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2024

Still, Galileo measured oxygen and methane in Earth’s atmosphere, the latter in ratios that suggested a disequilibrium brought about by living organisms.

From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023

One of my ideas was to place a figure from the Age of Enlightenment, a humanist, in a sort of psychic disequilibrium.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

If you analyse it this general sense of mis-fit is one of the curses of your generation, one of the products of the world’s disequilibrium and chaos.

From Unfolding Destiny by Shoghi Effendi