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vulnerability - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | vulnerability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exposure |
| Synonyms: | accountability, amenability, amenableness, arrearage, blame, burden, compulsion, culpability, debt, duty, indebtedness, liability, obligation, onus, openness, owing, susceptibility, susceptibleness, vulnerableness, accountableness, subjection |
| Main Entry: | allergy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reaction to certain food, material, etc. |
| Synonyms: | aversion, hay fever, sensitivity, susceptibility, allergic reaction, hypersensitivity, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | danger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hazard, troublesome situation |
| Synonyms: | crisis, dynamite, emergency, exigency, exposure, insecurity, instability, jeopardy, menace, peril, pitfall, possibility, precipice, probability, risk, storm, threat, uncertainty, venture, clouds, double trouble, endangerment, hot potato, precariousness, risky business, slipperiness, thin ice, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | care, guard, preservation, safety, security, carefulness |
| Main Entry: | exposure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncovering; putting in view or danger |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, betrayal, confession, denunciation, disclosure, display, exhibition, exposé, hazard, introduction, jeopardy, liability, manifestation, nakedness, peril, presentation, publicity, revelation, risk, showing, susceptibility, airing, baring, defenselessness, denudation, divulgence, divulging, giveaway, laying open, openness, 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, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, disease, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, frailty, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, shortcoming, debilitation, diseasedness, flu, ill health, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unwellness, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | soundness, strength, good health, healthiness, robustness |
| Main Entry: | instability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, disquiet, flightiness, fluctuation, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, inconsistency, insecurity, irregularity, oscillation, restlessness, uncertainty, vacillation, volatility, wavering, weakness, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, fickleness, fitfulness, fluidity, impermanence, inquietude, irresolution, mutability, pliancy, precariousness, shakiness, transience, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, variability, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | jeopardy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger, trouble |
| Synonyms: | accident, chance, exposure, hazard, insecurity, liability, out on a limb*, peril, risk, venture, double-trouble, endangerment, on the line, on the spot, precariousness, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | protection, safety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | peril |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger, risk |
| Synonyms: | exposure, hazard, insecurity, jeopardy, liability, menace, pitfall, uncertainty, cause for alarm, double trouble, endangerment, openness, risky business, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | safety, security, safeness |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
| Synonyms: | Achilles heel*, appetite*, blemish, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, failing, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, imperfection, impotence, inclination, indecision, infirmity, instability, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot*, taste*, vice, chink in armor, enervation, faintness, impairment, inconstancy, invalidity, irresolution, powerlessness, sore point, vitiation, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | strength, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | Achilles heel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vulnerable point |
| Synonyms: | defect, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, handicap, susceptibility, weak spot, weakness, chink in the armor, damaging weakness, heel of Achilles, tender spot, vulnerability, weak link |
| Main Entry: | tragic flaw |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | character flaw |
| Synonyms: | Achilles' heel, chink in one's armor, fatal flaw, tragic flaw, vulnerability, weak point |
| Main Entry: | dependence/dependency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addiction, need |
| Synonyms: | attachment, contingency, habit, helplessness, hook, inability, security blanket, subordination, weakness, yoke, servility, subjection, subservience, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | independence, subtraction, want |
| Main Entry: | insecurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger |
| Synonyms: | hazard, instability, precariousness, vulnerability |
| Main Entry: | liability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance, probability |
| Synonyms: | exposure, likelihood, susceptibility, tendency, openness, proneness, vulnerability, vulnerableness |
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