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shakiness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instability |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecureness, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unstableness, unsteadiness, unsureness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unstableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unsteadiness |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, instability, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, ricketiness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness*, wobbliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsteadiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unstableness |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, instability, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, ricketiness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness*, wobbliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsureness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instability |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecureness, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unstableness, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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absurd, egregious, extravagant, foolish, inconsistent, macaronic, nonsensical, preposterous, punning, quibbling, ridiculous, senseless, sophistical, unmeaning
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| Concept: | Levity. |
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-nouns
levity; lightness; imponderability, buoyancy, volatility., feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air., leaven, ferment, barm, yeast.
-verbs
be light; float, rise, swim, be buoyed up., render light; lighten, leaven.
-adjectives
light, subtile, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose, suberous; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating; portable., light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air.
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| Antonyms: | gravity |
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