imbalance

We've had 'imbalance' where two things are not equal to each other.

Imagine Romeo and Juliet, but with colonialism, power imbalances, and fewer cute balcony scenes.

And the idea that it's not just an imbalance, again, that someone is not broken, maybe their brain is just sort of stuck.

Scientists monitor climate change using the Earth's energy imbalance – the difference between the solar energy entering the Earth's atmosphere and the radiation going back out into space.

This is not a chemical imbalance.

I asked you, Which unit do scientists use to measure the Earth's energy imbalance?