Vulnerability

Noun

 * 1)  Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
 * The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences.
 * 1)  a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.

Related terms

 * vulnerable

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

Translations

 * Dutch: kwetsbaarheid
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese: 脆弱性 (zeijakusei)


 * Manx: so-lhottaght
 * Portuguese: vulnerabilidade
 * Romanian: vulnerabilitate
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: kwetsbaarheid, zwakke plek
 * Finnish: haavoittuvuus, alttius, herkkyys
 * French:


 * Japanese: 脆弱性 (zeijakusei)
 * Manx: so-lhottaght
 * Swedish:


 * : vulnerabilità


 * : נקודת תורפה

Antonyms

 * invulnerability