precipitant
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
An event or factor that triggers or immediately precedes a change in mental state.
The loss of his job appeared to be the main precipitant for this episode of low mood.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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