circumstances
Details of situation
Circumstances are the conditions or facts surrounding a situation or event: Under the circumstances, we had no choice.
The word often implies factors beyond one's control that shape outcomes: victims of circumstance.
Financial circumstances refers specifically to one's economic situation: They lived comfortably but within their circumstances.
Circumstantial evidence points toward a conclusion indirectly rather than proving it outright.
Prevailing state of affairs
- determinantsWhat decides outcomes
- variablesChangeable elements in equations
- influencesPowers that shape behavior
- causesBrings into being
elements · aspects · components · drivers · catalysts · contributors · considerations · constraints
Relating to one's self
- individualOne separate human being
- domesticOf the home
- privateRestricted to certain parties
- homeOne's personal residence
work · career · health · marital · living · daily · everyday · current
Context of events
- backdropRear stage scenery
- milieuSocial or cultural surroundings
- frameworkUnderlying support system
- climatePrevailing atmospheric conditions
atmosphere · ambience · landscape · terrain · arena · domain · sphere · realm
Difficult, unpleasant situation
- plightDifficult, dangerous situation
- dilemmaForced choice between undesirables
- quandaryState of perplexity
- positionLocation or stance
state · status · juncture · affairs · case · developments · happenings · occurrence
Method or resources
- resourcesAvailable assets or supplies
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- povertySevere lack of resources
- affluenceAbundance of money
income · assets · status · hardship · prosperity · budget · solvency · insolvency
conditions
Prevailing state of affairs
- determinantsWhat decides outcomes
- variablesChangeable elements in equations
- influencesPowers that shape behavior
causes · elements · aspects · components · drivers · catalysts · contributors · considerations · constraints · parameters
personal
Relating to one's self
- individualOne separate human being
- domesticOf the home
- privateRestricted to certain parties
home · work · career · health · marital · living · daily · everyday · current · present
setting
Context of events
climate · atmosphere · ambience · landscape · terrain · arena · domain · sphere · realm · scenario
predicament
Difficult, unpleasant situation
- plightDifficult, dangerous situation
- dilemmaForced choice between undesirables
- quandaryState of perplexity
position · state · status · juncture · affairs · case · developments · happenings · occurrence · events
means
Method or resources
- resourcesAvailable assets or supplies
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- povertySevere lack of resources
affluence · income · assets · status · hardship · prosperity · budget · solvency · insolvency · straitened
upbringing
Childhood care and training
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- originsPoints where things start
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
history · family · lineage · ancestry · culture · tradition · birthplace · homeland · provenance · socioeconomic
- circumstancessituation, conditions, state, status, position
- realityreality, actuality, existence, being, truth
- contextbackground, setting, situation, environment, framework
- happeningshappenings, happening, event, occurrence, events
- conditionsmedical condition, weather conditions, environmental conditions, living conditions, working conditions
- moral theologyconscience, mortal sin, venial sin, natural law, moral law
circumstancesconstants
Unchanging fixed values
invariables · absolutes · permanence · certainties · universals
- under no circumstancesEmphatic total prohibition
- pomp and circumstanceShowy formal ceremony
- unforeseen circumstancesUnplanned events affecting outcomes
- under the circumstances
- mitigating circumstancesConditions lessening apparent guilt
- extenuating circumstanceCondition reducing culpability