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wobbliness

wobbliness

6.0
A state of being unsteady and shaky so things or sounds seem to move
  • noun
  • /ˈwɑːblɪnəs/
translation icon : inestabilidad
  • The wobbliness of the old staircase made me feel uneasy as I climbed it.

But just you know what, embrace the wobbliness of the table.

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Examples

  • The Obama campaign isn't concerned with Romney's resolve and has shied away from attacking his "wobbliness."

    Blog text (17)

  • After staring at Tomas for several seconds, subtracting his wobbliness and the general spin of things from what he saw, he became certain that the old man had stopped breathing.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • But just you know what, embrace the wobbliness of the table.

    Ear Biscuits

  • Did the architects of its initial design anticipate the wobbliness of the whole system?

  • And I'm going to, I'm basically going to fix that that I'm going to fix that wobbliness in the stem by just burying it a little bit deeper.

    MIgardener

  • His wobbliness on the tightrope showed that he needed more practice to perform well.

  • The wobbliness of the toy caused it to tip over when pushed too hard.

Synonyms

wavering
vswobbliness
3 5.5

A time when someone is unsure about a choice

is used for physical side to side movement or visible unreliability
shakiness
vswobbliness
1 4.1

An unsteady trembling of the body or voice when you cannot keep them still

tends more toward sideways motion and visual or sound unreliability
unsteadiness
vswobbliness
1 5.1

A lack of balance or firm control that causes shaking

focuses on side to side movement and unreliable look or sound

Antonyms

stability
363 3.1

Being steady and not likely to change

reliability
60 3.5

A person or thing you can trust to work well every time

How Wobbly

instability
114 5.1
wobbliness
6.0
stability
363 3.1

Surface Forms

wobbliness singular
wobblinesses plural

Morphology

wobbliness = wobbly (transparent) = wobbly + ness

Derived by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'wobbly', yielding the quality of being unsteady.

Etymology

Wobbliness comes from the verb wobble, a word that sounds like the action of moving side to side, plus -ness, which turns it into a quality. So wobbliness means the state of being 'unsteady' or shaky, like a table that moves or a voice that trembles.