Vulnerability

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vulnerability \Vul`ner*a*bil"i*ty\, n.
     The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  vulnerability
       n 1: the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability
            to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule" [syn: {exposure}]
       2: susceptibility to injury or attack [ant: {invulnerability}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "vulnerability":
     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