precariousness
precarity

Being in a high place, you sense the precariousness of your position.

The precariousness of his own position began to grow clear.

I do not believe you realize the precariousness of the situation.

The body understood the precariousness of its place even if the mind did not.

Why do young people face so much unemployment and precariousness?

The precariousness of the situation was overcome by their kindness.

For the next hour, however, no one had time to brood over the precariousness of the situation.

"The film is supposed to make you think about the precariousness of life and how we handle it," he said.

An example will show the precariousness of his position.

Whereas our world has the precariousness of a newly born thing.

His new life, for all its precariousness, held zest and adventure.

If I needed anything to perfect the precariousness of my steering, it was just that.

More important, it lends a note of precariousness to the production.

Precariousness: how close the current state of the system is to a limit or "threshold."

That is not to belittle the precariousness of his condition.

The precariousness of their lives rushed back upon her.

Despite the precariousness of her situation, she enjoyed seeing Stark afraid.

At the same time, the drawing evokes the precariousness of contemporary life.

What these people share is a sense of precariousness and frightening dislocation.

The proposal smacked too much of "precariousness" for the French.

Instead, it will reveal the precariousness of the American claim to be the only superpower.

These are only two of the many points in the story where the precariousness of things makes you hold your breath.

The precariousness of their situation became clearer to both of them.

There was much insecurity and precariousness for him and his family.

Despite Henry John's financial precariousness, he sent his children to good local schools.