Stability is the quality of being stable (maintaining balance , not changing or staying in the same place for a long time). The term comes from the Latin stabilĭtas . For example: "My son is learning to ride a bicycle but he still doesn't have good stability" , "Be careful with that cup: its stability is fragile and he can fall just by touching it" , "I have a job with little stability", "The team "He has lost his stability due to the series of injuries."
It is possible to consider stability from various perspectives. The political stability of a region depends on its ability to avoid crises and to maintain norms without major changes: «Argentina is a country that has always had problems achieving stability» , «The stability achieved by the government is admirable after last year's problems .
Economic stability , for its part, is obtained when there are no significant variations in the levels of production, income, employment and prices: "Inflation threatens the economic stability of the nation," "The national economy has regained stability with the fall in the unemployment rate .
emotional stability
Likewise, we must not forget that, at the level of the human being as such, there is what is known as emotional stability. It is a term that comes to express the degree or situation experienced by any person who is mentally stabilized, who does not have ups and downs at the level of feelings, who is in good spirits and enthusiasm.
All of this also helps those who have this stability to know how to deal much better with the setbacks that life can give them and this translates into them not being stressed, overwhelmed or even depressed.
However, it can happen that everyone, even the most emotionally stable, suffers a setback and sees themselves fall into a situation of depression, anguish, decay, anxiety... This may be the result of having suffered a setback in their happiness. , in the hopes I had for a certain aspect, in the death of a loved one...
However, it is true that there are many other people who have emotional instability as one of their main personality traits. Experts agree in emphasizing that those who are identified by having had an overprotection of their family, because they constantly search for the ideal in all aspects, because they have not matured and because they are not able to separate the different areas of their life (work, relationship , friendship…).
But not only that. Furthermore, they see small setbacks as real disasters, they never forget the negative situations in their lives and they keep them very present, they are not able to make decisions easily...
The concept in philosophy and computer science
For philosophy , stability is the quality of a situation that is maintained over time with some regularity , beyond its dynamism or statism.
In the field of computing , stability is the property of systems that have a reduced level of failures . The fewer failures, the greater stability, and vice versa: "The new operating system is very attractive from a visual aspect, but its stability leaves much to be desired."