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PRECARIOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
Example:
the precariousness of his income
Synonyms:
precariousness; uncertainness; uncertainty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("precariousness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "precariousness"):
doubt; doubtfulness; dubiousness; question (uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something)
indefiniteness; indefinity; indeterminacy; indeterminateness; indetermination (the quality of being vague and poorly defined)
unpredictability (lacking predictability)
improbability; improbableness (the quality of being improbable)
fortuitousness (the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance)
speculativeness (the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation)
Derivation:
precarious (affording no ease or reassurance)
precarious (not secure; beset with difficulties)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Extreme dangerousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("precariousness" is a kind of...):
dangerousness (the quality of not being safe)
Derivation:
precarious (fraught with danger)
