PRECARIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does precariousness mean? 

• PRECARIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun PRECARIOUSNESS has 2 senses:

1. extreme dangerousness

2. being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance

  Familiarity information: PRECARIOUSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRECARIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

precariousness; uncertainness; uncertainty

Context example:

the precariousness of his income

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)