different between fragility vs vulnerability

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilit?s. Doublet of frailty.

Morphologically fragile +? -ity

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???d???l?ti/
• Rhymes: -?l?ti

Noun

fragility (countable and uncountable, plural fragilities)

1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
2. Weakness; feebleness.
3. (obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty.

Derived terms

• white fragility

Translations

References

• fragility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From vulnerable +? -ability

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?ln????b?l?ti/
• Rhymes: -?l?ti
• Hyphenation: vul?ner?a?bil?i?ty

Noun

vulnerability (countable and uncountable, plural vulnerabilities)

1. (uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; 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. (countable) a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
3. (computing) a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security

Synonyms

• vulnerableness

Antonyms

• invulnerability

Related terms

• vulnerable

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