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vulnerability

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of vulnerability

1 the quality or state of having little resistance to some outside agent

vulnerability to infection

Synonyms of vulnerability

defenselessness, susceptibility, weakness

Words Related to vulnerability

helplessness, powerlessness

passiveness, passivity

feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity

exposure, liability, openness, predisposition, proneness, sensitivity

receptiveness, receptivity

easiness, gullibility, naïveté (also naivete)

credulity, credulousness

Near Antonyms of vulnerability

impenetrability, indomitability, indomitableness, invincibility

Antonyms of vulnerability

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 of vulnerability

exposure, liability, openness

Words Related to vulnerability

predisposition, susceptibility

defenselessness, helplessness, weakness

danger, jeopardy, peril, risk

Near Antonyms of vulnerability

protection, safeguarding, sheltering, shielding

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