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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium; "a hormonal imbalance" [syn: imbalance, instability, unbalance] [ant: balance]
2: (mathematics) a lack of symmetry [syn: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance] [ant: balance, correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1890 lack of balance ; the state of being out of equilibrium or out of proportion <a vitamin imbalance> <racial imbalance in schools> • imbalanced adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 lack of balance. 2 disproportion.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(imbalances) If there is an imbalance in a situation, the things involved are not the same size, or are not the right size in proportion to each other. ...the imbalance between the two sides in this war. N-VAR: oft N in/between pl-n

Moby Thesaurus

anamorphism, anamorphosis, asymmetry, buckle, contortion, contrariety, crookedness, detorsion, deviation, difference, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, distortion, gnarl, heterogeneity, inadequacy, inequality, inequity, injustice, insufficiency, irregularity, knot, lopsidedness, nonuniformity, odds, overbalance, quirk, screw, shortcoming, torsion, tortuosity, turn, twist, unbalance, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unsymmetry, warp, wrench, wrest, wring