implications, repercussions, consequences, impact, dimension, significance, possibility, ripple effect, threat, aspect, factor, justification, fait accompli, facet, concern, fallout, impediment, reverberations, corollary, issue, disjuncture, phenomenon, graveness, imminence, prelude, connotation, relevance, specter, irony, thing, finiteness, detriment, element, reason, precipitant, precursor, travesty, dilemma, upshots, externality, problem, rationale, foreshadowing, manifestation, conundrum, domino effect, context, concomitants, desideratum, repugnancy, microcosm, fallacy, inevitability, effects, applicability, lacuna, changer, necessity, catalyst, imponderable, imperative, stumbling block, epiphenomenon, harbinger, extent, hindrance, prefiguring, detraction, downsides, folly, determent, danger, silver lining, means, unsettlement, determinant, quandary, immiseration, body politic, consequent, pitfall, construal, magic bullet, question, impetuses, complication, precipitate, paradox, blunder, reformable, trilemma, improbability, offing, dichotomy, evils, evitable, abrogation, lousiness, drawback, inefficacy, outcome, ascendence, ramifications, implication, consequence, repercussion, branchings, application, challenge, difficulty, extension, subdivision, benefit, ques, inconvenience, inducement, recourse

bifurcation, divarication, fibrillation, trifurcation

development, division

branching, complication, fork, forking