VULNERABILITY Synonyms
There are 5 hypernyms of the word vulnerability. (close relations)
vulnerabilities
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exposure | nounn | |||||||
noun • vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain • the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience • the disclosure of something secret • aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces • the state of being vulnerable or exposed • the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate • a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format • the act of exposing film to light • presentation to view in an open or public manner • abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open) | ||||||||
defenselessness | nounn | |||||||
noun • the property of being helpless in the face of attack | ||||||||
delicacy | nounn | |||||||
noun • the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance • something considered choice to eat • refined taste; tact • slenderness • lack of physical strength • subtly skillful handling of a situation • lightness in movement or manner | ||||||||
feebleness | nounn | |||||||
noun • the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) • the quality of lacking intensity or substance | ||||||||
fragility | nounn | |||||||
noun • quality of being easily damaged or destroyed • lack of physical strength | ||||||||
frailty | nounn | |||||||
noun • the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) • moral weakness | ||||||||
helplessness | nounn | |||||||
noun • powerlessness revealed by an inability to act • the state of needing help from something • a feeling of being unable to manage | ||||||||
insecurity | nounn | |||||||
noun • the state of being subject to danger or injury • the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure | ||||||||
malleability | nounn | |||||||
noun • the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking | ||||||||
nakedness | nounn | |||||||
noun • the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind • a bleak and desolate atmosphere • characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive | ||||||||
openness | nounn | |||||||
noun • without obstructions to passage or view • characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive • willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) | ||||||||
precariousness | nounn | |||||||
noun • extreme dangerousness • being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance | ||||||||
riskiness | nounn | |||||||
noun • a state of danger involving risk | ||||||||
susceptibility | nounn | |||||||
noun • the state of being susceptible; easily affected | ||||||||
tender | verb, noun, adjectivev, n, adj | |||||||
adjective • given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality • easy to cut or chew • physically untoughened noun • something that can be used as an official medium of payment • someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another • a formal proposal to buy at a specified price • car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water • a boat for communication between ship and shore • ship that usually provides supplies to other ships adjective satellite • hurting • young and immature • having or displaying warmth or affection • (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail • (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition verb • offer or present for acceptance • propose a payment • make a tender of; in legal settlements • make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | ||||||||
weakness | nounn | |||||||
noun • a flaw or weak point • powerlessness revealed by an inability to act • the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain • the condition of being financially weak • a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you | ||||||||
vulnerableness | nounn | |||||||
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