PRECARIOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)

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)