vulnerability

vulnerability

noun

Definition of VULNERABILITY

1

the quality or state of having little resistance to some outside agent <vulnerability to infection>

Synonyms defenselessness, vulnerability, weakness

Related Words helplessness, powerlessness; passiveness, passivity; feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity; exposure, liability, openness, predisposition, proneness, sensitivity; receptiveness, receptivity; easiness, gullibility, naïveté (also naivete or naiveté); credulity, credulousness

Near Antonyms immunity; impenetrability, indomitability, indomitableness, invincibility

Antonyms invulnerability

2

the state of being left without shelter or protection against something harmful <the vulnerability of the car to vandalism when it's parked on the street>

Synonyms liability, openness, vulnerability

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

Near Antonyms protection, safeguarding, sheltering, shielding