contingencies

Meaning of contingencies

plural noun
  1. a future event or circumstance which is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty.
    a detailed contract which attempts to provide for all possible contingencies

mid 16th century (in the philosophical sense): from late Latin contingentia (in its medieval Latin sense ‘circumstance’), from contingere ‘befall’ (see contingent).

Information about contingencies

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of contingencies is: contingency.
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Hyphenation of contingencies

con-tin-gen-cies

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
  • contingencies is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

contingencies synonyms

Meaning a possible event or outcome:

eventuality

Meaning an instance of something happening; an event or occurrence:

incident

Meaning an event or occurrence:

happening

Meaning an incident or event:

occurrence

Meaning a particular point in events or time:

juncture

Meaning a thing that may happen or be the case:

possibility

Meaning an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury:

accident

Meaning a possibility of something happening:

chance

Meaning a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action:

emergency

Meaning the state of being uncertain:

uncertainty

Meaning a chance occurrence:

fortuity

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