vulnerability as a noun: - 1
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vulnerability
noun
1 vulnerability
The state of being vulnerable or exposed:
— His vulnerability to litigation.
synonym: exposure.
Roget 665:
danger,
peril,
insecurity,
jeopardy,
risk,
hazard,
venture,
precariousness,
slipperiness;
instability
etc.
149;
defenselessness
etc.
adj.,
exposure
etc.
(liability)
177;
vulnerability;
vulnerable point,
heel of Achilles†;
forlorn hope
etc.
(hopelessness)
859.
[Dangerous course]
leap in the dark
etc.
(rashness)
863;
road to ruin,
faciles descensus Averni [Lat.]
[Vergil],
hairbreadth escape.
cause for alarm;
source of danger
etc.
667.
rock ahead
[Approach of danger],
breakers ahead;
storm brewing;
clouds in the horizon,
clouds gathering;
warning
etc.
668;
alarm
etc.
669.
[Sense of danger]
apprehension
etc.
860.
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Dutch: contact, blootstelling, krachtloosheid, slapheid, slapte, afgeleefdheid, zwakte, zwakheid, kwetsbaarheid
Polish: zdemaskowanie, obnażenie
2 vulnerability
Susceptibility to injury or attack.
Moby thesaurus: ad lib, assailability, breakability, breakableness, brittleness, chink, crackability, crackableness, crispness, crumbliness, crushability, crushableness, delicacy, disqualification, exposure, extemporaneousness, fissility, flimsiness, fracturableness, fragility, frailty, frangibility, friability, heel of Achilles, improvisation, incapability, incompetence, lacerability, lack of preparation, liability, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, openness, penetrability, planlessness, pregnability, soft spot, susceptibility, susceptivity, unfitness, unfittedness, unpreparedness, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, vincibility, vulnerable point, weak link, weak point, weakness ... show more.
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