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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

immunity

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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