Unsteadiness
noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being unsteady. countable, uncountable
"The Marsh rebuilding, with the higher-pitched and larger boiler and new standard boiler mountings, completely altered the appearance of the engine, which in its last guise was a very handsome machine; but unsteadiness in running at speeds over 50 m.p.h. resulted in no further such conversions being made."
- 2 the quality of being unsteady — varying and unpredictable wordnet
- 3 the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place wordnet
Example
More examples"The Marsh rebuilding, with the higher-pitched and larger boiler and new standard boiler mountings, completely altered the appearance of the engine, which in its last guise was a very handsome machine; but unsteadiness in running at speeds over 50 m.p.h. resulted in no further such conversions being made."
Etymology
From unsteady + -ness.