| Main Entry: | vulnerability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exposure |
Synonyms: |
accountability, accountableness, amenability, amenableness, arrearage, blame, burden, compulsion, culpability, debt, duty, indebtedness, liability, obligation, onus, openness, owing, subjection, susceptibility, susceptibleness, vulnerableness |
| Main Entry: | allergy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reaction to certain food, material, etc. |
Synonyms: |
allergic reaction, aversion, hay fever, hypersensitivity, sensitivity, susceptibility, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | danger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hazard, troublesome situation |
Synonyms: |
clouds, crisis, double trouble, dynamite, emergency, endangerment, exigency, exposure, hot potato, insecurity, instability, jeopardy, menace, peril, pitfall, possibility, precariousness, precipice, probability, risk, risky business, slipperiness, storm, thin ice, threat, uncertainty, venture, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
care, carefulness, guard, preservation, safety, security |
| Main Entry: | dependence/dependency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addiction, need |
Synonyms: |
attachment, contingency, habit, helplessness, hook, inability, security blanket, servility, subjection, subordination, subservience, vulnerability, weakness, yoke |
Antonyms: |
independence, subtraction, want |
| Main Entry: | exposure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncovering; putting in view or danger |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, airing, baring, betrayal, confession, defenselessness, denudation, denunciation, disclosure, display, divulgence, divulging, exhibition, exposé, giveaway, hazard, introduction, jeopardy, laying open, liability, manifestation, nakedness, openness, peril, presentation, publicity, revelation, risk, showing, susceptibility, susceptiveness, susceptivity, unfolding, unmasking, unveiling, vulnerability, vulnerableness |
Antonyms: |
concealment, covering, hiding |
| Main Entry: | infirmity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness, sickness |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flu, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unwellness, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
good health, healthiness, robustness, soundness, strength |
| Main Entry: | instability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
Synonyms: |
alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness |
Antonyms: |
balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | jeopardy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger, trouble |
Synonyms: |
accident, chance, double-trouble, endangerment, exposure, hazard, insecurity, liability, on the line, on the spot, out on a limb, peril, precariousness, risk, venture, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
protection, safety |
| Main Entry: | liability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance, probability |
Synonyms: |
exposure, likelihood, openness, proneness, susceptibility, tendency, vulnerability, vulnerableness |
| Main Entry: | peril |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger, risk |
Synonyms: |
cause for alarm, double trouble, endangerment, exposure, hazard, insecurity, jeopardy, liability, menace, openness, pitfall, risky business, uncertainty, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
safeness, safety, security |