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# steadiness

«steadiness» in Mova's school dictionary: **Being firm and not shaking or wobbling** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (steadiness — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Being firm and not shaking or wobbling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steadiness/#m1)

2) Being regular and even, without sudden changes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steadiness/#m2)

3) Being calm, sensible and reliable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steadiness/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and science, steadiness means balance: a steady hand in a hoop-and-wire game, steadiness on a balance beam. In stories, steadiness of a character means they are calm and trustworthy in a crisis. In maths and science graphs, steadiness means a steady rate, no jumps.

### examples

- Holding the tray, the waiter showed great steadiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steadiness/#x1)
- Surgeons need steadiness of hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steadiness/#x2)
- Her steadiness in the crisis calmed everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steadiness/#x3)
- The steadiness of the rain meant the river rose slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steadiness/#x4)
- We admired the steadiness of the tightrope walker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steadiness/#x5)
- The graph shows the steadiness of the temperature all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steadiness/#x6)

### note

Uncountable; from «steady» (y → i + -ness). Opposite: shakiness, unsteadiness.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «steadiness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steadiness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.