Entry Word: exposure

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the state of being left without shelter or protection against something harmful <some people avoid situations in which there is a high level of exposure to germs>

Synonyms liability, openness, vulnerability

Related Words susceptibility; defenselessness, helplessness, weakness; danger, jeopardy, peril, risk

Near Antonyms protection, safeguarding, sheltering, shielding

2 the act or an instance of making known something previously unknown or concealed <the exposure by the local newspaper of the kickback scheme in the public works department> — see revelation