precarity
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from New Latin precārietās. By surface analysis, precarious + -ity, leading to the syncopation.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹəˈkɛɹɪti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹəˈkɛəɹɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪti
- Hyphenation: pre‧ca‧ri‧ty
Noun
[edit]precarity (countable and uncountable, plural precarities)
- Synonym of precariousness
- (sociology) A condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare.
- Synonym: insecurity
- 2014, Roland Paulsen, Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance, →ISBN, page 82:
- A phenomenon that catches a general tendency towards obscurity is what Standing calls "uptitling" - to give a job a high-sounding epithet to conceal its precarity and, I would say, its substance.
- 2021, Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land, page 622:
- Does the boy sense, already, the precarity of all this?
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- see: precarious
Translations
[edit]condition of existence
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