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Definition
a stable situation in which forces are in balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or (more rarely) emotional balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or (more rarely) emotional balance
- Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consummation, the peace, not of mere vacant satiety and nothingness, but of balanced life, of energies at rest and in equilibrium.p. 85.8
- We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium.p. 111.1
- It has given us the stablest equilibrium in history.p. 227.8
There are no more uses of "equilibrium" in Brave New World.
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