hazardousness

  • 11hazardous — adjective Date: 1585 1. depending on hazard or chance 2. involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) < a hazardous occupation > < disposing of hazardous waste > Synonyms: see dangerous • hazardously adverb • hazardousness noun …

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  • 12Uneconomic growth — (or economic degrowth), in human development theory, welfare economics (the economics of social welfare), and some forms of ecological economics, is economic growth that reflects or creates a decline in the quality of life. The concept is&#8230; …

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  • 13hazardous — hazardously, adv. hazardousness, n. /haz euhr deuhs/, adj. 1. full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey. 2. dependent on chance. [1570 80; HAZARD + OUS] Syn. 1. dangerous, unsafe. 2. chancy, uncertain, risky, speculative. Ant. 1. safe,&#8230; …

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  • 14delicacy — Synonyms and related words: absoluteness, accommodatingness, accuracy, acquired taste, affectivity, agreeableness, airiness, airy texture, allergy, ambrosia, amiable weakness, anaphylaxis, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciation&#8230; …

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  • 15insecurity — Synonyms and related words: chanciness, criticalness, danger, delicacy, desultoriness, doubtfulness, dubiousness, hazard, hazardousness, infirmity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, peril, perilousness, precariousness, risk, riskiness,&#8230; …

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  • 16instability — Synonyms and related words: ambitendency, ambivalence, caducity, capriciousness, chanciness, change of mind, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, corruptibility, criticalness, danger, dappleness, death, decrepitude, delicacy, desultoriness …

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  • 17riskiness — Synonyms and related words: chanciness, criticalness, danger, delicacy, desultoriness, doubtfulness, dubiousness, hazard, hazardousness, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, peril, perilousness, precariousness, risk,&#8230; …

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  • 18sword of Damocles — Synonyms and related words: bulldozing, chanciness, commination, criticalness, delicacy, denunciation, doubtfulness, dubiousness, empty threat, foreboding, hazardousness, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, insecurity, instability,&#8230; …

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  • 19uncertainty — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonism, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, agitation, ambiguity, ambiguousness, ambitendency, ambivalence, amphibology, anxiety, apprehension, arrhythmia, bleariness, blur, blurriness, bother,&#8230; …

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  • 20unreliability — Synonyms and related words: capriciousness, chanciness, changeableness, coquettishness, credibility gap, criticalness, danger, delicacy, desultoriness, deviability, doubtfulness, dubiousness, eccentricity, erraticism, faddishness, faddism,&#8230; …

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