MEANING
The process of making a system, institution, or situation less stable or less able to maintain control.
Use it for
describing weakened political or economic stability; tracing how a disturbance makes outcomes less predictable; distinguishing instability from complete collapseDescribes reduced stability without assuming a complete collapse or a deliberate actor. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- political destabilization
- economic destabilization
- destabilization of institutions
On the page
The sudden withdrawal of funding contributed to institutional destabilization.
The analysis separates short-term disruption from longer-term destabilization of the market.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- destabilization
Usage notes
Usually uncountable. British destabilisation is a spelling variant. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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