EGAVE

vulnerability

About 5.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The state of being vulnerable; susceptibility to attack or injury, either physical or emotional; 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.
  2. noun A specific weakness in the protections or defences that (literally or figuratively) surround someone or something.
  3. noun A weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security.

Similar words

exposure frailty weakened weakening debility weakness weak precariousness poor fragile

Often followed by

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