English > precariousness: 2 senses > noun 2, attribute| Meaning | unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance. |
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| Example | "the precariousness of his income" |
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| Synonyms | uncertainty, uncertainness |
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| Narrower | doubt, dubiousness, doubtfulness, question | uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something |
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| fortuitousness | The quality of happening / happening / happening / happening accidentally and by lucky chance |
| improbability, improbableness | The quality of being improbable |
| indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indefinity, indetermination, indeterminacy | The quality of being vague and poorly defined / defined |
| speculativeness | The quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation |
| unpredictability | lacking predictability |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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| Opposite | certainty, sure thing, foregone conclusion | Something that is certain |
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| Spanish | incerteza, incertidumbre, precariedad |
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| Catalan | incertesa, precarietat |
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| Adjectives | precarious | not secure |
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| precarious | affording no ease or reassurance |
