equilibrium

Meaning

Noun

• The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
• Mental balance.
• The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
• The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.

Related

Similar words

• balance, stability
• sanity

Opposite words

• disequilibrium, imbalance, instability
• disequilibrium, non-equilibrium
• insanity, instability, madness

Narrower meaning words

• heat death

Broader meaning words

• stasis

Origin

• From Latin aequilībrium, from aequus + lībra.