All circumstance synonyms

noun circumstance

• case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
• status — the position of an individual in relation to another or others, especially in regard to social or professional standing.
• accident — An accident happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
• occurrence — the action, fact, or instance of occurring.
• fate — something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
• thing — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
• time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
• detail — The details of something are its individual features or elements.
• crisis — A crisis is a situation in which something or someone is affected by one or more very serious problems.
• matter — a dull or dead surface, often slightly roughened, as on metals, paint, paper, or glass.
• incident — an individual occurrence or event.
• factor — Christmas factor.
• action — Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
• coincidence — A coincidence is when two or more similar or related events occur at the same time by chance and without any planning.
• cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
• fact — Fully Automated Compiling Technique
• contingency — A contingency is something that might happen in the future.
• supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
• fortuity — the state or quality of being fortuitous; fortuitous character.
• affair — If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair.
• point — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
• scene — the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
• stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
• juncture — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
• happenstance — a chance happening or event.
• go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• respect — a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in): to differ in some respect.
• intervention — the act or fact of intervening.
• destiny — A person's destiny is everything that happens to them during their life, including what will happen in the future, especially when it is considered to be controlled by someone or something else.
• feature — a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic: Tall buildings were a new feature on the skyline.
• adjunct — Something that is an adjunct to something larger or more important is connected with it or helps to perform the same task.
• kismet — fate; destiny.
• lot — lot (def 14).
• concern — Concern is worry about a situation.
• proviso — a clause in a statute, contract, or the like, by which a condition is introduced.
• particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
• phase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
• article — An article is a piece of writing that is published in a newspaper or magazine.
• doom — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
• happening — something that happens; occurrence; event.
• item — a separate article or particular: 50 items on the list.
• portion — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
• place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
• occasion — a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences: They met on three occasions.
• moira — Classical Mythology. the personification of fate. Moirai, the Fates.
• where it's at — (used to indicate a point or place occupied in space); in, on, or near: to stand at the door; at the bottom of the barrel.
• condition — If you talk about the condition of a person or thing, you are talking about the state that they are in, especially how good or bad their physical state is.
• situation — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
• status quo — the existing state or condition.
• context — The context of an idea or event is the general situation that relates to it, and which helps it to be understood.