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Equilibrium vs Viability - What's the difference?

equilibrium | viability |

As nouns the difference between equilibrium and viability

is that equilibrium is balance, equilibrium while viability is the property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed.

equilibrium

English

Alternative forms

* “ equilibrium]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed. (dated)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
  • * 1999 , , Agent smith speech
    • Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
  • (physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.
  • (chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
  • Mental balance.

    • Synonyms

    * (a condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced) balance, stability * (mental balance) sanity

    Antonyms

    * (a condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced) disequilibrium, imbalance, instability * (in physics) disequilibrium, non-equilibrium * (mental balance) insanity, instability, madness

    Hypernyms

    * (in physics) stasis

    Derived terms

    * disequilibrium * dynamic equilibrium * equilibrist * Nash equilibrium * neutral equilibrium * stable equilibrium * static equilibrium * unstable equilibrium

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    References

    English nouns with irregular plurals

    viability

    English

    (wikipedia viability)

    Noun

    (-)
  • the property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed
  • * 1904, Hugo DeVries, Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
    • Ordinarily these altered organs are sterile, but in some instances a very small quantity of seed is produced, and when testing their viability I succeeded in raising a few plants from them.
  • * 1980, Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address
    • In making its grants the Endowment will increase its emphasis on techniques which stimulate support for the humanities from non-Federal sources, in order to reinforce our tradition of private philanthropy in this field, and to insure and expand the financial, viability of our cultural institutions and life.

    Usage notes

    * Viability is a false friend in Italian, and it does not mean "".