labile adjective. ['leɪbɪl, -ʌɪl] LME.
[Late Latin labilis, from labi fall: see -ILE.]
1. Liable to lapse. Of a person: apt to err or sin; Theology liable to fall from innocence. LME.
■ G. Cheyne All creatures being..free, must necessarily,..be labile, fallible and peccable. Forum These funds are no more labile than any other form of trust.

2. Liable to undergo displacement in position or change in nature, form, chemical composition, etc.; unstable; esp. in Chemistry (of an attached ligand or group) readily displaced by another, (of a bond) readily broken. E17.
b. Psychology. Emotionally or behaviourally unstable. M20.

■ la'bility noun (chiefly Science) the quality or state of being labile M16.

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