unsteadiness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

UNSTEADINESS, noun unsted'iness. 1. Unstableness; inconstancy; want of firmness; irresolution; mutableness of opinion or purpose. 2. Frequent change of place; vacillation.
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