Definition of "disequilibrium" [disequilibrium]

• Loss or lack of stability or equilibrium. (noun)

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• "Classically trained professionals and laypeople alike offered similar explanations for why people fell sick: the body's four humors had been thrown out of balance, causing one or more of these fluids to be in disequilibrium with the others."
• "The difficulty is, of course, as we have seen in the German case, to reach agreement in a given moment on whether a fundamental disequilibrium is prevalent."
• "The new editor of the AER is Robert Clower, a UCLA professor who is widely known as a disequilibrium theorist and interpreter or reinterpreter of Keynes."