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VocabJLPT N2

instability

な-AdjectiveNoun

Definitions

1. instability
2. insecurity

This な-adjective describes something that is unstable, unsteady, or unreliable. It can be used for physical situations like unstable ground, as well as abstract ones like an unstable economy or an unstable relationship.

Example sentences

Sentence 1

The weather lately has really been all over the place.

Sentence 2

If the future is uncertain, all you can do is live fully in the present.

Sentence 3

Won't the load get unstable if you stack it that way?

Sentence 4

Don't you think beauty lives in those unstable, fleeting moments?

Sentence 5

Memory is unstable — it rewrites itself in convenient ways.