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Unsteadiness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the quality of being unsteady — varying and unpredictable wordnet
  3. 3
    the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place wordnet

Etymology

From unsteady + -ness.

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