chanciness
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chanciness — noun see chancy … New Collegiate Dictionary
chanciness — noun the quality of being chancy or risky; riskiness … Wiktionary
chanciness — chanc·i·ness … English syllables
chanciness — sēnə̇s, in noun ( es) : uncertainty or risk due to chance : fortuitousness * * * chancˈiness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑chance … Useful english dictionary
chancy — chanciness, n. /chan see, chahn /, adj., chancier, chanciest. 1. uncertain, hazardous, or risky. 2. random; haphazard; subject to chance. 3. Chiefly Scot. lucky. [1505 15; CHANCE + Y1] Syn. 1. precarious, doubtful, dubious, venturesome. Ant. 1.… … Universalium
chancy — adjective (chancier; est) Date: 1513 1. Scottish bringing good luck ; auspicious 2. uncertain in outcome or prospect ; risky 3. occurring by chance … New Collegiate Dictionary
Richard Ford — Infobox Writer name = Richard Ford imagesize = caption = deletable image caption pseudonym = birthdate = Birth date and age|1944|2|16|mf=y birthplace = Jackson, Mississippi deathdate = deathplace = occupation = Novelist, short story writer… … Wikipedia
chance — Synonyms and related words: a leg up, accidental, accidentally, advantage, adventitious, adventure, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, appear, approach, aptitude, aptness, arise, assay, attempt, bare possibility, bechance, befall, bet, betide, blind … Moby Thesaurus
delicacy — Synonyms and related words: absoluteness, accommodatingness, accuracy, acquired taste, affectivity, agreeableness, airiness, airy texture, allergy, ambrosia, amiable weakness, anaphylaxis, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciation… … Moby Thesaurus
hesitation — Synonyms and related words: Fabian policy, Micawberism, abeyance, averseness, backwardness, balbuties, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, break, caesura, calculation, canniness, capriciousness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution,… … Moby Thesaurus
