precarity
noun
pre·car·i·ty pri-ˈker-ə-tē 
: the state or condition of being precarious : precariousness
The older brother—Dave—raises the younger one, a responsibility that gives him a perpetual sense of life's urgency and precarity.
Paul Elie
Paul ElieJob precarity can add to a number of social and economic challenges facing millennials including rising personal debts, growing costs of living, shrinking access to pensions and lower retirement savings. Arif Jetha
Arif Jetha
Word History
Etymology
probably borrowed from French précarité, from précaire "granted or exercised only with the permission of another, insecure, uncertain" (going back to Middle French, borrowed from Latin precārius "given as a favor, uncertain, precarious") + -ité -ity
First Known Use
1910, in the meaning defined above
- insulin-like growth factor
- insulinize
- insulins
- Insull
- insulse
- insulsity
- insult
- insult someone's intelligence
- insultability
- insultable
- insultation
- insulted
- insulter
- insulters
- insulting
- insultingly
- insultproof
- insults
- insuperabilities
- insuperability
- insuperable
- insuperablenesses
- insuperably
- insupportability
- insupportable