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Predicament

//pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A definite class, state or condition.
  2. 2
    a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one wordnet
  3. 3
    An unfortunate or trying position or condition.

    "Culture, for me, is the effort to provide a coherent set of answers to the existential predicaments that confront all human beings in the passage of their life."

  4. 4
    That which is predicated; a category.

Etymology

From Middle English predicament, from Old French predicament, from Late Latin praedicāmentum (“that which is predicated, a predicament, category”).

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