What does precipice mean?
1 : a very steep or overhanging place. 2 : a hazardous situation broadly : brink.
What is the precipice of life?
This makes sense, considering that the 17th-century English word precipice comes, through French, from Latin words meaning “headlong” and “abrupt descent.” In modern use, precipice also describes how it feels to fall, or fail, in areas of life that don’t involve mountains, such as being “on the precipice of losing