state of affairs

Noun
  1. The general state of things;
    The combination of circumstances at a given time (synset 113950416)
    "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"
    is a type of: state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes
    subtypes:
    • absurd, the absurd - a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless
    • acceptance - the state of being acceptable and accepted
    • ballgame, new ballgame - a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation
    • challenge - a demanding or stimulating situation
    • childlessness - the condition of being without offspring
    • complication - a situation or condition that is complex or confused
    • crowding - a situation in which people or things are crowded together
    • disequilibrium - loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others
    • element - the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
    • environment - the totality of surrounding conditions
    • equilibrium - a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
    • exclusion - the state of being excluded
    • fish bowl, fishbowl, goldfish bowl - a state of affairs in which you have no privacy
    • hotbed - a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad)
    • inclusion - the state of being included
    • intestacy - the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will
    • picture, scene - a situation treated as an observable object
    • prison, prison house - a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
    • rejection - the state of being rejected
    • size, size of it - the actual state of affairs
    • square one - the situation in which you begin an endeavor and to which you return if your efforts fail
    • status quo - the existing state of affairs
    • thing - a special situation
    same as: situation

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