predicament
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predicament /prɪˈdɪkəm(ə)nt/
▶noun
- 1 a difficult situation.
- 2 Philosophy each of the ten categories in Aristotelian logic.
– origin ME (orig. in sense ‘category’, later ‘state of being’, hence ‘difficult situation’): from late L. praedicamentum ‘something predicated’ (rendering Gk katēgoria ‘category’), from L. praedicare (see predicate).
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