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What does lability mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state of being labile.
  2. (countable) A susceptibility to change; instability.
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The essential features of PMDD, according to DSM-IV, include markedly depressed mood, anxiety or tension, affective lability, and persistent anger or irritability.
Conversely, the possibility of intramolecular rearrangement means that failure to isolate geometric isomers or to resolve the racemic mixture into optical isomers is not absolute proof of lability.
Taube has interpreted lability of complexes according to their electronic configuration in terms of VB theory.
The zeolites are noted for their lability toward ion-exchange and reversible dehydration.
And this, in turn, may be regarded as but a manifestation of the process of survival by lability rather than by stability.
Mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, emotional lability, depersonalization, suicide attempts, and confusion were observed in this study.

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