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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness |
| Antonyms: | balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | flightiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irresponsibility |
| Synonyms: | airheadedness, capriciousness, changeability, dizziness, fickleness, flippancy, frivolity, giddiness, inconstancy, instability, levity, lightness, mercurialness, variability, volatility, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
| Antonyms: | responsibility |
| Main Entry: | flux |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of constant change |
| Synonyms: | alteration, change, flow, fluctuation, fluidity, instability, modification, motion, mutability, mutation, transition, unrest |
| Antonyms: | constancy, stability, steadiness |
| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, crack-up, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, maladjustment, mental illness, neurasthenia, obsession, personality disorder, phobia, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Notes: | neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance |
| Antonyms: | adjustment, balance, sanity |
| Main Entry: | restlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | constant motion; discontent |
| Synonyms: | activity, agitation, ailment, ants, antsiness, anxiety, bustle, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, edginess, excitability, ferment, fitfulness, fretfulness, hurry, inconstancy, inquietude, insomnia, instability, jitters, jumpiness, movement, nervousness, restiveness, transience, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, unsettledness, worriedness |
| Antonyms: | calm, contentedness, relaxation, restfulness |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
| Synonyms: | Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | strength, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incertitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | doubt, insecurity, instability, skepticism |
| Antonyms: | certitude |
| Main Entry: | insecurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger |
| Synonyms: | hazard, instability, precariousness, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | uneasiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upset |
| Synonyms: | agitation, alarm, angst, anxiety, apprehension, compunction, constraint, disbelief, discomfort, discontent, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, doubt, dread, dyspathy, dysphoria, embarrassment, fear, inquietude, instability, malaise, misgiving, nervousness, penitence, perturbation, qualm, queasiness, remorse, restlessness, scruple, trouble, uncertainty, unrest, worry |
| Antonyms: | calmness |
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