mental stability

collocation in English

meaningsofmentalandstability

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mental
adjective
uk
/ˈmen.təl/us
/-t̬əl/
relating to the mind, or involving the process ...
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stability
noun[U]
uk
/stəˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/stəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
a situation in which something is not likely to move ...
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(Definition ofmentalandstabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Unfortunately in severe psychosis, management may be a compromise betweenmentalstabilityand poorer motor function.
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Unfortunately, the end-result of management is usually a compromise betweenmentalstabilityand poorer motor function.
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Surely that psychological effect can be measured in terms of cost when we consider the health andmentalstabilityof people after retirement.
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There seem to be two points in this case, first, the medical fitness of the boy, and secondly, hismentalstability.
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In the end, he cracks, even though no physical damage is done to him; that has already been done without breaking apart hismentalstability.
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Invariably, the health ormentalstabilityof the carer will break down and the child will end up in residential care.
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There is abundant and increasing evidence that the damage done to our children's health andmentalstabilityis considerable.
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The same can be said aboutmentalstability.
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The association have not, however, provided identifying particulars of men of doubtfulmentalstabilitywho have been enlisted.
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There are many degrees of responsibility for crime, as there are degrees and shadings ofmentalstability.
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It suggests that we are dealing with people whosementalstabilitymay, in charity, be thought to be somewhat in question.
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We are on some sort of mental roller-coaster, but government needsmentalstability.
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We are discussing a matter which affects the health andmentalstabilityof a great many people.
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Nothing is more harmful to thementalstabilityof a person than reaching old age and suffering from loneliness.
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It would be too difficult to obtain such a positive evaluation of his character, hismentalstability, or of anything else.
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Another case was of a woman worried about her violent husband'smentalstability.
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The security in many instances will only have to be thementalstabilityof those individuals who are compelled, because of poverty, to apply for relief.
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People wishing to enter this country, if they are to be examined as tomentalstability, need to be examined by people who are qualified to declare in that respect.
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It does not take much imagination to understand why people in detention for many months, having previously experienced trauma of various kinds, need help to retainmentalstability.
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A sufficiency of fats contributes more than anything else to a sense of well-being and ofmentalstability, whereas a deficiency of fats promotes discontent and restlessness.
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