Unsteadiness

Definition: Unsteadiness

Unsteadiness

Noun

1. The quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place.

2. The quality of being unsteady--varying and irregular.

Date "unsteadiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Domain	Definition
Physics	The irregular or slowly periodic fluctuations of the luminous intensity. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Unsteadiness

Synonyms: instability, levity. (additional references)

Antonym: steadiness (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Unsteadiness

English words defined with "unsteadiness": Flittiness ♦ Tickleness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unsteadiness": combustion instability. (references)

Etymologies containing "unsteadiness": Tickleness. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Effect of Unsteadiness and Stratification on Local Scour (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Marcus T. Cicero	No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	No, upon my honour, there is no unsteadiness of character.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Muscles begin to atrophy and paralysis sets in. A much rarer form of the disorder which occurs in patients in their twenties and early thirties is characterized by unsteadiness of gait and progressive neurological deterioration. (references)
		It is named after the physician Nicholas Friedreich, who first described the condition in the 1860's. "Ataxia," which refers to coordination problems such as clumsy or awkward movements and unsteadiness, occurs in many different diseases and conditions. (references)
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"Unsteadiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsteadiness" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	28	65,706

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Language		Translations for "unsteadiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		blafren. (various references)

Dutch		flakkering. (various references)

Finnish		vapina (jitter, pulse jitter). (various references)

French		vacillations, tremblotements. (various references)

German		Unstetigkeit (discontinuity, inconstancy), Unsicherheit (danger, doubtfulness, insecurity, instability, precariousness, shakiness, uncertainness, uncertainty, uneasiness, unevenness, unsoundness, unstableness, unsureness, wildness, wobbliness), Flackern (flare, flare up, flicker, glint, to flare, to flicker, to glint, waver). (various references)

Greek		αστάθεια (disequilibrium, fickleness, frailness, frailty, inconstancy, instability, mutability, shakiness). (various references)

Indonesian		kegoyangan. (various references)

Italian		fluttuazione (fluctuation, swing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不規則 (disorderly, irregularity), 不真面目 (lack of sincerity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふきそく (disorderly, irregularity), ふまじめ (lack of sincerity). (various references)

Pig Latin		eadinessunstay

Portuguese		vacilações, instabilidade (changeability, fluctuation, fluidity, inconstancy, instability). (various references)

Romanian		variabilitate (changeableness, fluctuation, mutability, variability), schimbare (about-face, alteration, change, changeableness, chop, conversion, exchange, fluctuation, modification, mutability, mutation, novelty, passage, shift, transformation, vacillation, variability, variance, variation). (various references)

Scottish		clisbeachd. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neujednačenost (unevenness), nestabilnost (instability), nesigurnost (incertitude, insecurity, shakiness, uncertainty). (various references)

Spanish		inseguridad (insecurity, self consciousness, self-distrust, unstableness, unsureness, wobbliness), inestabilidad (fluidity, instability, shakiness). (various references)

Swedish		ostadighet (fickleness, instability, uncertainty). (various references)

Turkish		sabit olmama (inconstancy), kararsızlık (changeability, dither, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fickleness, flightiness, fluctuation, haziness, hesitance, hesitancy, incertitude, inconsistency, indecision, indeterminate, infirmity, infirmity of purpose, instability, irresolution, looseness, oscillation, quandary, shilly shally, suspense, uncertainty, vacillation, variability), istikrarsızlık (changeability, fluidity, unstability), değişkenlik (capriciousness, changeability, fluidity, incalculability, inconstancy, inequality, instability, mobility, uncertainty, variability, variable, versatility). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unsteadiness": unsteadinesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-n-s-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: steadiness, unassisted, uneasiness, unsteadies.
	-3 letters: andesites, antisense, danseuses, dunnesses, dustiness, insensate, inundates, nastiness, sandiness, snideness, staidness, sustained, uneasiest, unstained.
	-4 letters: adenines, andesite, aniseeds, assented, assisted, audients, danseuse, dentines, desinent, destains, destines, detinues, diseases, diseuses, disseats, dissents, dunnites, easiness, etesians, insanest, inundate, neatness, nudeness, sandiest, saneness, seasides, sensated, sensates, sestinas, sestines, sinuated, sinuates, standees.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-n-s-s-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: unsteadinesses.
	+3 letters: subordinateness.
	+4 letters: inadequatenesses, indisputableness, outlandishnesses, unrestrainedness, upstandingnesses.
	+5 letters: indubitablenesses, rudimentarinesses, subordinatenesses, unmitigatednesses.
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