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Vulnerability

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.

n. a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or property of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the state of being vulnerable or exposed

n. susceptibility to injury or attack

Word Usage

"The increase in vulnerability is far more dramatic in the developing world, where in an average year tens of thousands of people die in weather-related disasters."

Antonym

invulnerability

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

danger

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

vulnerableness

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

accessibility advisability availability believability collectibility

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

vulnerabilities helplessness uncertainty fragility embarrassment