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- [im-bal-uh ns]
- /ɪmˈbæl əns/
- /ˌɪmˈbæl.əns/
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- [im-bal-uh ns]
- /ɪmˈbæl əns/
Definitions of imbalance word
- noun imbalance the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution. 1
- noun imbalance faulty muscular or glandular coordination. 1
- noun imbalance lack of equilibrium 1
- noun imbalance lack of equality 1
- variable noun imbalance If there is an imbalance in a situation, the things involved are not the same size, or are not the right size in proportion to each other. 0
- noun imbalance a lack of balance, as in emphasis, proportion, etc 0
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Origin of imbalance
First appearance:
before 1895 One of the 18% newest English words
First recorded in 1895-1900; im-2 + balance
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Imbalance
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
imbalance popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 82% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
imbalance usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for imbalance
noun imbalance
- inequality — social or economic disparity: inequality between the rich and the poor; widening income inequality in America. unequal opportunity or treatment resulting from this disparity: inequality in healthcare and education.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- asymmetry — Asymmetry is the appearance that something has when its two sides or halves are different in shape, size, or style.
- unevenness — not level or flat; rough; rugged: The wheels bumped and jolted over the uneven surface.
- disproportion — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
Antonyms for imbalance
noun imbalance
- agglutination — the act or process of agglutinating
- amicability — characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable: an amicable settlement.
- apposition — If two noun groups referring to the same person or thing are in apposition, one is placed immediately after the other, with no conjunction joining them, as in 'Her father, Nigel, left home three months ago.'
- atticism — the idiom or character of the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek, esp in the Hellenistic period
- attunement — an attuning or act of making harmonious
verb imbalance
- allegorize — to transform (a story, narrative, fable, etc) into or compose in the form of allegory
- allying — to unite formally, as by treaty, league, marriage, or the like (usually followed by with or to): Russia allied itself to France.
- amount to — If you say that one thing amounts to something else, you consider the first thing to be the same as the second thing.
- analogize — to make use of analogy, as in argument; draw comparisons
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