precarity

noun2

1. •
   The condition of existence without predictability or security, thus affecting material or psychological welfare; (countable) an instance of this.

   • The individual precarity of persons thus provides a psychology for, a sense of plausibility for, a doctrine of collective precarity, thereby justifying a pseudo-unity under the nation state. — 1985
2. •
   Synonym of precariousness (“the state of being uncertain or unstable”); (countable) an instance of this.

   • She looks at him, his round cheeks, his eyelashes, his damp hair. Does the boy sense, already, the precarity of all this? — 2021