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Disequilibrium

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Loss or lack of stability or equilibrium.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the loss of equilibrium or stability, especially due to an imbalance of forces

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An imperfect equilibrium, as of intellectual and moral faculties.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others

Word Usage

"The difficulty is, of course, as we have seen in the German case, to reach agreement in a given moment on whether a fundamental disequilibrium is prevalent."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

state of affairs situation

Hyponym

imbalance instability unbalance

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

equilibrium

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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