vulnerability

3 definitions found

vulnerability - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

vulnerability - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

vulnerability - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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